RE: [ECOS] Re: pragma pack

["Paul D. DeRocco" <pderocco at ix dot netcom dot com>]

> From: Grant Edwards
> 
> The trap snaps shut when you take the address of a field in a 
> packed struct and pass that to somebody who's expecting a 
> pointer to a normally aligned value.

True. I could imagine ways in which the type system could be designed to
prevent that, using a pointer modifier like "int __packed*", but it's not.

Anyway, for normal accesses, it works fine, so you can do things like
operate on the fields in a DOS boot sector without problems. That's the only
situation I've ever needed the feature.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com 


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