Hi,
I'm looking for a generic opinion on the use of "#pragma pack" for writing
Solaris code. I know it's useful for device register sets, or data structures
that don't follow ABI layout rules.
We use #pragma pack(4) at a few places in Solaris (for example, the SVM on-disk
layout data structures on Solaris/x86).
Should such a use be allowed or discouraged for new code ? I.e. if I have a
data structure that is packed (no padding, contains misaligned multibyte
entities), should I better write a convertor function or were it ok to use
#pragma pack(1) ?
Thanks,
FrankH.
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