> On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Jason Dufair wrote:
> 
> > Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> > 
> > >#( ...
> > >   (header 'char' 282)
> > >   ... ) 
> > >  
> > >
> > Heh.  Talk about a case of RTFM.  Sorry I overlooked that. 
> 
> Actually it's more like RTFC.  I discovered this by looking in
> ExternalStructure>>compileFields:withAccessors:. And I think giving the
> size in bytes is misleading, it should be multiple of the base type's
> size. That is, when I give it an (stuff 'int' 3) it should skip 
> 12 bytes. Andreas?

Bytes is just right. The argument is intended for padding and it is also not
always clear what the size of the base type is. Consider something like:

typedef struct t_Color {
  char r, g, b; /* three bytes */
} Color;

and then:

typedef struct t_DrawingAttribute {
  Color rgb;
  int lineWidth;
} DrawingAttribute;

Most compilers will align the line width to next word boundary and therefore
it's much easier to use byte sizes here.

Cheers,
  - Andreas

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