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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Import a type from C
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"Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net> writes:

> ...only the crude pack pragma / command line option ...

What's the "pack pragma".  Is this standard C, or something supported by
some C compilers?  (Which compilers?)

What does it do?  E.g., does it work for arrays?  (It's hard to see how
it could, given C's confusion between arrays and pointers.)

- Bob