I don't see this error code being useful - working slowly hardly
would be a reason for the library to return and fail to do what
it was asked to do, so normal functions would never actually return
this code.
These pragmas specified that structs should be packed in a way
different from the normal way defined by the current platform ABI.
Since these pragmas are in headers part of the public API, and the
pragmas are nonstandard, this is a portability and compatibility
hazard (all code calling the library need to have the same support
for the nonstandard pragma).
Additionally, accessing unaligned struct members (as produced by this
tight struct packing) can give reduced performance or even lead to
crashes on platforms that require strict alignment.
The only theoretical possible benefits of using the pragma are either
matching a certain struct layout defined in some other, fixed ABI
(but since this is an interface defined by this library itself, there's
no such prior binary interface that needs to be matched), or to reduce
the memory usage by packing the structs tighter (where the reduction
would be marginal at best).
