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Re: RFC: attribute "unpadded"

From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
To: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU>
Cc: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:12:53 -0700
Subject: Re: RFC: attribute "unpadded"
References: <m3znv9bnj7.fsf@soliton.integrable-solutions.net> <82130000.1030379930@warlock.codesourcery.com> <20020827150014.GA22104@ceres.cs.mu.oz.au>

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 01:00:14AM +1000, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> But for users of GCC who need to
> define or use structures that are layout-compatible with particular
> C++ structures, I think it would make more sense to just write C++ code
> that uses the original C++ definitions of these structures.

Or, instead, make certain that the data structures that 
are shared between C and C++ are POD types, since POD
types do not have this "unpadded" feature about them.

r~

References:
- Re: RFC: attribute "unpadded"
  - From: Gabriel Dos Reis
- Re: RFC: attribute "unpadded"
  - From: Mark Mitchell
- Re: RFC: attribute "unpadded"
  - From: Fergus Henderson

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