Re: [PATCH 2/8] SFI: include/linux/sfi.h

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jun 30 2009 - 18:00:00 EST



* Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:28:11 +0200
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > +/*
> > > + * Table structures must be byte-packed to match the SFI specification,
> > > + * as they are provided by the BIOS.
> > > + */
> > > +#pragma pack(1)
> >
> > We use __attribute__((packed)) for that generally.
>
> Or __packed. I usually recommend __packed because I can never
> remember the weird arrangement of underscores and parentheses in
> the gcc thing.

Agreed - it's also shorter and more in line with stuff like
__read_mostly, etc.

Ingo
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