Re: Off-topic

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
7 Mar 1997 06:07:16 GMT

Followup to: <19970306225651.10483.qmail@bigred.inka.de>
By author: Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > __attribute__((packed)) _does_ account for hardware enforced alignment.
>
> Then you can't use it for structures that are defined by data exchange
> formats at all. At least, such code will get non-portable.
>

I think he meant that __attribute__((packed)) will generate the
appropriate code to *work around* hardware enforcement (masks and
shifts, typically.)

-hpa

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