Re: egcs-1.1.2 ping bug also causes miscompilation of pcbit isdn

Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Tue, 15 Jun 1999 16:18:22 +0100 (GMT)


On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Malcolm Beattie wrote:

> This means that, contrary to what you claim, the condition
> foo.one == (*(char *)&foo);
> is indeed guaranteed to hold.

Could a strange architecture require padding _before_
the first member, or would that have to be dealt with
by aligning the structure, rather than the members?

Matthew.

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