Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Portability of NTFS userspace code

[Richard R. <nt...@fl...>]

Hi Anton,

> > __PACKED__
> > typedef enum {
> > 	ABC = 4,
> > } RICH __attriute__ ((packed__));
> > __UNPACKED__
> 
> Having thought about this some more, it is not that bad. But we should
> take it a bit further to make it cleaner.

OK, good.

> PACKED_TYPEDEF struct {
> 	blah = 4,
> } mystructname PACKED_TYPEDEF_END;

I'll have a think.  I don't want to mess up the code unnessarily.

> 
> PACKED_TYPEDEF enum {
> 	blah = 4,
> } myenumname PACKED_TYPEDEF_END;

The enums will take a bit of thought.  We can't put them directly into
the structs.

> And then have the compat.h header file deal with defining...
> That makes it even nicer than the __attribute__ strangeness and
> the pragma strangeness that gcc and msvc have respectively.

Yeah, that's sounding good.

> So basically feel free and do something along those lines if you wish...

Cheers,
  FlatCap (Rich)
  nt...@fl...