Tue 2003-02-18 12:10, Tobias Ernst (2:2476/418.15) wrote to andrew clarke:

 ac>> politics of some of the "design decisions" that I made, eg. it 
 ac>> was clear that nobody the sizeof(XMSG) issue solved for all 
 ac>> compilers, so I did that.

 > How that !?!? Do we have any sizeof(XMSG) dependencies left!? There is 
 > structrw.c, and I have intentionally removed each and every 

 > #pragma pack

 > or other evil stuff from SMAPI. Should id have returned!?

The problem is programs using the API, not how the API works internally. 
See the comments at the beginning of smapi.pas (in the CVS).

#pragma pack isn't evil if used correctly.

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