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From: paasen <paasen AT natlab DOT research DOT philips DOT com>
Subject: Re: findfirst() findnext() bug?
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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 08:07:25 GMT
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Richard L.F. van Paasen wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> When I use the findfirst() and findnext() functions of libc,
> the first 2 characters of the names in ffblk.ff_name dissapear.
> Is this a bug in libc.a ? With Borland C, this works fine.
> 

I found that it is a bug in the gcc C++ compiler. The compiler
doesn't pack the structures that have the __attribute__((packed))
keywords. A work around for this is to add the following in
dir.h:

#ifdef __cplusplus
#pragma pack(1)
#endif

<here is the ffblk structure stuff>

#ifdef __cplusplus
#pragma pack()
#endif

The same may be needed around the time structrure in dos.h ?
.