Re: drivers/block/ub.c

[David S. Miller]

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:50:58 -0700
Matthew Dharm <mdharm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I guess, in the end, what this comes down to is the fact that we're all
> going to get bitten on the ass when we finally get to a platform where the
> default alignment is 64-bits, which would then (by default) add padding to
> the above structure.

No it would not, see the other email I just sent out.  Even when Alpha's
could not address smaller-than-word quantities with load/store instructions,
it _DID NOT_ pad such elements in it's ABI defined structure layout rules.
It did word loads, and shift+mask'd out the elements it wanted as needed.
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