Re: [PATCH 8/10] Re: [2.6-BK-URL] NTFS: 2.1.19 sparse annotation,cleanups and a bugfix

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> 
> What does sparse do at the moment when the enum size has been changed 
> away from sizeof(int) using __attribute__ ((__packed__))?

Spatse doesn't support that at all, and will just ignore it.

Of course, since sparse doesn't actually generate any code, there's no 
real impact from that. In theory, you might get sparse to complain if you 
do something like "__attribute__((align(sizeof(xx)))" where the size is 
now wrong and not a power-of-two, but..

		Linus
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