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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:29:25 -0400
From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] am I nuts? does 8c support packed structs?
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On Fri Oct 22 13:21:11 EDT 2004, rminnich@lanl.gov wrote:
> ...
> "How do you create TCP headers without packed structs?" is one question I
> got. I guess Plan 9 is quite possibly the "here's how" except of course
> everyone did this before packed structs (or even gcc, or even before C
> compilers that aligned structs and struct members for that matter -- was
> there a C compiler before gcc? one wonders. The mind boggles).
> 
> Unless there's another 8c pragma I have not heard of, I'll stuck to 
> marshalling data by hand.
> 
> ron

Next you'll tell me they use bitfields in packed structs.