Re: [PATCH] sata_nv ADMA/NCQ support for nForce4

[Mark Lord]

Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Mark> I was thinking more about the non wordsized fields, such as
>     Mark> the various u8 bytes that gcc will lay out differently
>     Mark> depending upon endianess.
>
> I don't know of any gcc version that changes the order of struct
> fields.  You might be thinking of bitfields, which are laid out in an
> endian-dependent way.

Ack.  And also thinking about other compilers I work with,
which apparently are not so friendly.

You are correct -- I just verified it (again) for myself on x86 & PPC,
and the layout of u8 doesn't change.

Cheers!
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