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From: "Andris Pavenis" <pavenis AT laima DOT acad DOT latnet DOT lv>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com, G DOT DegliEsposti AT ads DOT it
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 20:36:49 +0000
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Subject: Re: PACKED situation
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> From:          G DOT DegliEsposti AT ads DOT it
> Subject:       Re: PACKED situation

> >    standard problem with PACKED taken from faq.
> >It's a bug in a version of djgpp which according to the faq s been fixed
> >in the djdev201.zip version.  The faq says that the structure gets
> >messed up.  I get the error below where the ";" is stated as missing.
> >I've been running djdev201.zip derived files for about a year.  So
> >version should not be my problem.
> >
> >typedef struct {
> >  DWORD style;
> [...]
> >  WORD  id;
> >} PACKED DLGITEMTEMPLATE;  //Error ; missing after struct declaration.
> It seems like you can't do like this if using C++ but only with C!
> Quoting faq 22.9:
> 

 
> However, note that the latter will only work when you compile it as a C
> source; C++ doesn't allow such syntax, and you will have to fall back to
> declaring each struct field with the packed attribute.  Therefore, it's
> best
> to only use declarations such as above if you are *certain* it won't be
> ever
> compiled as a C++ source.
> 


The following works perfectly with C++ source (You'll get packed 
structure)

 #  pragma pack(1)

        struct {
          char name[7];
          unsigned long offset;
          double quality;
        };

 #  pragma pack()



Andris Pavenis