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Subject: Re: [9fans] structure allocation.
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
Date: Tue,  7 Mar 2006 09:43:06 -0500
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> If I recall correctly #pragma pack used to be #pragma hjdicks,
> I liked better the old name.  Damned political correctness.

I made the change, and I did it because pack is a better name.
It is less obscure and accurately describes the effect of the
pragma.  If it had been named #pragma xyzzy, I would have
renamed it for exactly the same reasons.

Russ