On Apr 20, 2009, at 7:17 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:

> Sturla Molden wrote:
>> On 4/19/2009 10:50 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
>>
>>> Could we have some kind of keyword to define packed structs in  
>>> Cython?
>>> This is not part of the C standard, but is supported in most C  
>>> compilers
>>> through extensions.
>>
>> Since it's not in the standard, there is no standard syntax for this.
>>
>> But you can fake it using a char array and some constants storing  
>> offsets.
>
> Thanks, good idea. Indeed, since Cython would know the struct  
> definitions,
> we could just directly output the necesarry pointer arithmetic :-)

I'd rather avoid such messiness in the C code if we can. +1 to being  
able to specify a packed keyword though.

- Robert

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