Cliff, My opinion is that you shouldn't add the 'packed' keyword to a struct declaration unless you are compelled to use data objects of that type as if they were of a simple bit-vector type, for example, as the operand to an arithmetic operator. It ought be legal to use the 'packed' keyword to bit-stream cast an unpacked data object into a simple bit-vector type, for example, if (packed'(st)) ... -- BradReceived on Mon Feb 27 10:18:38 2006
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