Re: Subtleties of __attribute__((packed))

[Andreas Schwab]

Jan Blunck <jblunck@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Once again: I refered to "packed attribute on the struct vs. packed attribute
> on each member of the struct". The alignment shouldn't be different.

You are mistaken.  The alignment of a non-packed structure can be greater
than the maximum alignment of the containing members.

Andreas.

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