Re: Bug#278459: [smartmontools-support]#pragma pack(1) doesn't work for gcc ??

[Bruce A. <ba...@gr...>]

> > > Gcc people suggest using #pragma whenever possible so we should probably
> > > do that whenever we compile with gcc.

> > I'm confused by this remark.  Currently in the code we DO use ONLY
> > #pragmas.  What do you want to do differently?

> Typo. gcc info pages suggest to _not_ use #pragma. So we should use
> __attribute__ ((packed)) on GCC systems.

I'd prefer that the gcc people fix their #pragma.  Otherwise the code is
less portable: we'd need gcc-specific conditionals in the source code.  
At the very least we need to support Sun cc and icc in addition to gcc.

Cheers,	
    Bruce