Add ATTRIBUTE_PACKED to ansidecl.h

Kaveh R. GHAZI ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu
Wed Dec 6 23:40:00 GMT 2006


On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Nick Clifton wrote:

> +/* Useful for structures whoes layout must much some binary specification
> +   regardless of the alignment and padding qualities of the compiler.  */
> +#ifndef ATTRIBUTE_PACKED
> +# define ATTRIBUTE_PACKED __attribute__ ((packed))
> +#endif

Please consider using "__packed__" not "packed".  All the other ATTRIBUTE
macros use underscores to avoid conflicts with user-space macros.

		Thanks,
		--Kaveh
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Kaveh R. Ghazi			ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu



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