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Hello David,

On 22 Jan 00, David De Grave scribbled this to Erik Cumps:

 EC>> Use 'info gcc' for more info. Look at node "Variable Attributes"...

 DDG> Okay... I've find the specified documentation. But that seems to not
 DDG> working correctly...

Hmmm...

 DDG> Look : Like as the documentation, I've written this :

 DDG> struct  USERSrecord { [...] };

 DDG> void    putallusers()
 DDG> {
 DDG>     struct USERSrecord bu __attribute__ ((packed));

 DDG>     [...]
 DDG> }

You need to use the __atribute__ keyword when you declare your structure, not
when you're declaring a variable whose type is that struct. A struct is either
packed, or it is not.

In other words, do it this way:

struct USERSrecord { ... } __attribute__ ((packed));

void putallusers (void)
{
    struct USERSrecord bu;

    ...
}

 DDG> but at compilation, I've the following message :

 DDG> ubrows.c: In function `putallusers':
 DDG> ubrows.c:34: warning: `packed' attribute ignored

Indeed. This is quite normal.

 DDG> And this macro doesn't work on DOS machine with a TC compiler ;-( (fixed
 DDG> with a #ifdef _DOS ;-))

Of course! It is, after all, a GCC extension. :)

Cya, Erik

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