need for packed attribute

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Fri Jan 06 2006 - 13:14:32 EST


Hi,

is there any architecture for which packed is required in structures like this:

/* All standard descriptors have these 2 fields at the beginning */
struct usb_descriptor_header {
__u8 bLength;
__u8 bDescriptorType;
};

Regards
Oliver
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