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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:17:05 +0200
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Eli Zaretskii schrieb:
> You could probably make it work with the `-fpack-struct' switch, but
> I'd suggest not to try: it's a futile exercise.
> 
> Either you need to read this struct from a program compiled by a
> different compiler than the one used to write the struct, or you
> don't.  If you do need this, the best way is to read the data as a
> byte stream into a buffer, then unpack the buffer into the struct
> manually.  But the best alternative is to read and write the file by
> programs compiled with the same compiler.

That's what I was afraid of. so I have to port all that huge project,
data generation as well as data visualization - sigh.
But thanks for the instant reply anyway.

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