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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Driver structures & alignment
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Mike Smith wrote:
> Having said that, I recommend using __attribute__ ((packed))
> to explicitly request that a structure be packed.

Is there a problem with "#pragma pack(1)"?  I see it in a
lot of header files... do they need changing?

-- Terry

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