On May 7, 2012, at 2:28 AM, Quincey Morris wrote:

> On May 7, 2012, at 00:22 , Graham Cox wrote:
> 
>> Is using the syntax you suggested considered better form than #pragma,?
> 
> I have a vague recollection that #pragma pack was already deprecated in GCC, 
> so __attribute__ ((packed)) might be the more compatible choice, but finding 
> trustworthy, non-out-of-date documentation for compiler options can be a bit 
> of a challenge.

Myself, I like to just spin off a method or function that takes a chunk of data 
and populates the fields of the struct one by one, instead of writing the data 
straight onto the struct. A little more code, but you know it’s going to work 
right without any surprises.

Charles


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