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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:34:42 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] 8c padding problem
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> excuse me. that's what hjdicks was for .. and it's called pack. ok.
> 
> abuse them or yourselfs for using such code.
> 
> brucee

what's the alternative?  what i can think of is either
cutting & pasting the repeated elements or not using
unnamed structures at all.  unfortunately, that results
in awful code like so

	h = (hdr*)buf;
	p = (proto*)h->data;
	e = (subprobo*)p->data;

- erik