>>>>> "Jamie" == Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> writes:
Jamie> Alan Cox wrote:
>> Structure padding is arch specific. For example u16 is 2 byte
>> aligned on m68k 4 byte aligned on x86 and god knows how its aligned
>> on an S/390
Jamie> <raises eyebrow>
Jamie> u16 is 4 byte aligned on x86?
Jamie> <checks GCC>
Jamie> Nope, it's 2 byte aligned.
Philipp's point is still valid though, u32 is only 2 byte aligned on
the m68k. Yes is sucks, no there's too many binaries out there for us
to change it now.
Jes
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