Re: [PATCH 03/18 ver2] libosd: OSDv1 Headers

From: JÃrn Engel
Date: Mon Nov 10 2008 - 10:18:32 EST


On Mon, 10 November 2008 10:47:07 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>
> If the assembly - size and offsets - of foo is exactly the same with or
> without the __packed, but the generated code is different then clearly this
> is a compiler bug. I've herd of this myth before, and at least with my
> gcc 4.1.2 there is no such bug. Either the structure gets packed, or there is
> no difference. All the places I have __packed in the code are absolutely must
> be so, stated by the protocol.

Ok, if current compilers are fine, I won't complain.

JÃrn

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