From: Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
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Subject: Re: PACKED situation
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 21:16:19 +0100
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Ian Chapman wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
>         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.
[...]
> 
>         So I tried this and still get the error:-
> #ifdef  __cplusplus
> #pragma Pack(1)

This should read 
#pragma pack(1)
Anyway, don't you want to pack this in C, too?


> #endif
> typedef struct {
>   DWORD style;
>   DWORD dwExtendedStyle;
>   short x;
>   short y;
>   short cx;
>   short cy;
>   WORD  id;
> } PACKED DLGITEMTEMPLATE;  //Error ; missing after struct declaration.

Omit "PACKED"

> #ifdef  __cplusplus
> #pragma Pack()
> #endif

Same here: lower case pack.

Hope my news reader will allow this answer ;-)

-- 
Ciao
Tom

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