Re: drivers/block/ub.c

[David S. Miller]

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:54:46 -0700
"Robert White" <rwhite@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The below makes no sense to me...  Nothing in the definition of struct bar{} (which
> is not packed) infers (top me) in the slightest that foo should be unnaturally
> aligned within it.

First of all, it is what the compiler does and has done since the
__packed__ attribute was added.

Second of all, you are asking it to "PACK" the structure, this includes
any place you place it within other data objects.  It becomes an N-byte
blob that has no alignment constraints must be placed exactly where it
is declared.

I am growing very tired of this thread.
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