Actually, you understood correctly. I had some legacy code with Zp1. It
all worked fine until I started trying it with DialogBlocks.
I am trying to see if I can get the old library recreated with a default
byte align.
Thanks,
Ralph
> Hi Ralph,
>
>> If I have a library that is byte aligned at 1, does anyone have a
>> suggestion as to how to use wxWidgets and DialogBlocks?
>>
>> For now it is on a windows system, but will be moving to include Mac and
>> Linux.
>
> Hmm, are you saying you used the compiler option in VC /zp 1 when
>; compiling? If so, you are not going to have a lot of fun with this.
> Basically you will have to wrap all wxWidget's includes with the
> following:
>
> #pragma push
>; #pragma pack(4)
>
> #include "wx.h"
>
> #pragma pop
>
> That "should" take care of telling your code that all of wx is
> default 4 byte aligned and then return you to your 1 byte alignment. Of
> course if you add any includes from your library you need to reverse it:
>
> #pragma push
>; #pragma pack(1)
>
> #include "blargo.h"
>
> #pragma pop
>
> Please note also that there are some annoying bugs which crop up due
> to pack settings which are hard to avoid. I don't know about VC7+ in this
>; area but previously changing the packing settings caused some very serious
> problems for me in the past. Someone had written a library with /zp 1 set
> because it made all their code really tiny but even after modifications
> such
>; as the above, some code generated improper offsets randomly.
>
> I "hope" I've misunderstood your question here as using /zp 1 is a
> really bad thing to be doing in most cases..
>
> KB
>
>
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