Re: other/4957: #pragma pack(1) ... #pragma pack(4) does not restore the original alignment

[Loren James Rittle <rittle@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com>]

The following reply was made to PR other/4957; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Loren James Rittle <rittle@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com>
To: igusarov@akella.com
Cc: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: other/4957: #pragma pack(1) ... #pragma pack(4) does not restore the original alignment
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 13:52:11 -0600 (CST)

 In article <3E89B05E.4070302@akella.com>,
 "Igor A. Goussarov"<igusarov@akella.com> writes:
 
 > [...] And since the .i files are too big, I didn't had the patience to 
 > reduce them to a pure bug-generating code.
 >     I guess that it might be a very stupid coding mistake, but it is 
 > unlikely...
 >     Well, I don't insist on keeping this bug open if you feel it 
 > shouldn't. I'll download the weekly snapshot of mainline gcc and try to 
 > build it to see how it behaves. gcc web site warns that not all of the 
 > snapshots might even build, can you suggest me which snapshot is working 
 > enough to try my code with it?
 >     Thanks again for your time!
 
 If you are working with FreeBSD, then most mainline snapshots should
 work fine for you.  However, I see that we aren't making snapshots of
 mainline at the moment.  Perhaps wait until after gcc 3.3 is released
 if you can easily obtain CVS mainline (which should work ~9/10 random
 updates just fine on FreeBSD).
 
 If this bug/issue can be seen with mainline, I will take an active
 interest in: fixing it, explaining it to someone that can, or
 explaining how the test case effectively violates ODR.
 
 Regards,
 Loren