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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Cc: Phil Endecott <phil_arcwk_endecott@chezphil.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Subtleties of __attribute__((packed))
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:30:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jeirgoathg.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061207094833.GD4942@hasse.suse.de> (Jan Blunck's message of "Thu, 7 Dec 2006 10:48:33 +0100")
Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> 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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prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-07 10:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-06 13:20 Subtleties of __attribute__((packed)) Phil Endecott
2006-12-06 14:01 ` Frederik Deweerdt
2006-12-06 14:24 ` Phil Endecott
2006-12-06 15:04 ` Jan Blunck
2006-12-06 15:22 ` Phil Endecott
2006-12-06 15:54 ` Jan Blunck
2006-12-06 16:02 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-12-06 16:41 ` Jan Blunck
2006-12-06 17:28 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-12-06 16:13 ` Phil Endecott
2006-12-06 16:26 ` Jan Blunck
2006-12-06 17:54 ` Russell King
2006-12-06 18:05 ` David Miller
2006-12-07 9:48 ` Jan Blunck
2006-12-07 10:30 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
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