Re: #pragma pack fixes (PR c/7054)

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich at novell dot com>]

>>> "Giovanni Bajo" <rasky@develer.com> 03.09.04 20:17:41 >>>
>Jan, can you prepare a patch for
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.5/changes.html 
>describing this change (and also the new NetWare target)?

Here it is (though unsure whether wording and placement are as
expected):

--- cvs/wwwdocs/mainline/htdocs/gcc-3.5/changes.html	2004-09-04
10:07:00.000000000 +0200
+++ tmp/changes.html	2004-09-07 11:15:38.209549808 +0200
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@
         deprecated in 3.3.4 and 3.4, have been removed.</li>
     <li>The <code>-fwritable-strings</code> option, which was
         deprecated in 3.4, has been removed.</li>
+    <li><code>#pragma pack()</code> semantics have been brought closer
to
+        those used by other compilers. This also applies to C++.</li>
   </ul>
 
 <h3>C++</h3>
@@ -141,6 +143,15 @@
         on some codes.</li>
   </ul>
 
+<h3>NetWare</h3>
+  <ul>
+    <li>Novell NetWare (on ix86, no other hardware platform had ever
been
+        really supported by this OS) has been re-enabled and the ABI
+        supported by gcc has been brought into sync with that of
MetroWerks'
+        CodeWarrior (the ABI previously supported was that of some
Unix
+        systems, which NetWare never tried to support).</li>
+  </ul>
+
 <h2>Documentation improvements</h2>
 
 <h2>Other significant improvements</h2>

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