On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 06:33:32PM -0800, Dave Carrigan wrote: > Marco Pantaleoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Otherwise, as suggested by others, you can resort to #pragma to specify > > packed structures, but this is not portable and I'd tend to consider > > this one a bad programming practice. > > I think that it's a horrible programming practice, and should not be > encouraged. For portable programming in ANSI C, the compiler's decision > on how it stores a struct should be considered as opaque, and the > offsetof macro and sizeof operators should be the only two mechanisms > that the programmer may use to glean meta-information about the struct.
Exactly. I mentioned that possibility only for the sake of completeness. Marco -- ======================================================================== Marco Pantaleoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] Padova, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED] elastiC language developer http://www.elasticworld.org -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
