Hello andrew!

Jun 02 17:25 03, andrew clarke wrote to Bo Simonsen:

 BS>> (subject, from, to, ftsc_data and so on). So i borrowed some code
 BS>> from the smapi.

 ac> This was probably due to the compiler using structure alignment 
 ac> on word boundaries (not type size) in which case you should be 
 ac> able to use:

 ac> #pragma pack(1)

 ac>     typedef struct _xmsg
 ac>     {
 ac>         /* ... */
 ac>     }
 ac>     XMSG;

 ac> #pragma pack()

Hmm.. i saw the same routine in XMSGAPI/SMAPI, i guess we need it. There is
problems about reading _the whole_ structure with read(). 

 ac> To align structures on byte boundaries.  This isn't portable to 
 ac> all compilers, but I think it works with all versions of GNU C.

 ac> Maybe you did this already.  ;-)

I compared the structure in MsgAPI with the one in SMAPI/XMSGAPI and they
were correct.

Regards,
Bo

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