Hi Aaron, The #pragma directive you described is compiler-specific, and not part of GCC. GCC supports these #pragma directives: #pragma GCC poison identifier(s) identifier(s) is one-or-more identifiers that have been marked for removal #pragma GCC dependency "file" error message text file is the file that must be older (by fstat) than this source file error message text is the textual output when the check triggers #pragma GCC system_header consider the rest of the file a system header No "#pragma pack" nor "#pragma GCC pack" in GCC 3.2. GCC has the C/C++ language extensions: __attribute__((aligned(8))) __attribute__((packed)) See <http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.2.3/gcc/Type-Attributes.html> HTH, --Eljay