[fpc-pascal] How to translate this C header struct to Pascal

[Florian Klaempfl]

Jonas Maebe schrieb:
> ik wrote on Fri, 23 Oct 2009:
> 
>> You can use bitpacked records:
>>
>> http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=bitpacked+record+package%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fpasxlibbind
>>
>> \.googlecode\.com&sbtn=Search
>>
>> Here is an example on how I use it :)
> 
> No, you cannot use bitpacked records for C header translations.
> Bitpacked records are not guaranteed to have the same layout as in C (or
> even in different versions of FPC). If it works, you are lucky, and it
> will probably fail on some other platform or in another FPC version one
> day.
> 
> The internal format of bitpacked records is opaque, and it is impossible
> to express the alignment requirements of C bitpacked structs or their
> internal fields with them.

In general yes, but I still use it for simple cases which cover 95% of
the usage :)