ImportC and #pragma pack

[Paulo Pinto]

On Thursday, 30 September 2021 at 07:01:07 UTC, Claude wrote:
> On Wednesday, 29 September 2021 at 17:25:51 UTC, Imperatorn 
> wrote:
>> My vote is for supporting it. That way it will be complete, 
>> and I remember seeing it around networking and serialization 
>> contexts for example. I tried asking in some c/c++ forums and 
>> got an estimate at around 3-5% of stuff use it according to 
>> them. Not much, but also not below 1%.
>
> I would also vote for that particular feature.
>
> I've also come across it in serialization context, but also 
> many times in the embedded system low-level context to describe 
> memory-mapped devices.
>
> As to how open should ImportC be to C extensions, I have no 
> idea.

Windows, Linux/Android and macOS headers are full of C 
extensions, so I would say for ImportC to be of value for systems 
programming on those platforms, it needs to at very least be able 
to understand those extensions.