-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello! I'm using "__attribute__((packed))" for the elements of a struct so that gcc doesn't add padding. The structs are somehow machine generated, so all elements have this. When using gcc-4.1.0 with -Wall I get a lot of Warning: »packed« attribute ignored for field of type »byte« What exactly is the reason of this warning? It just clobbers gcc output and has no real helpful meaning. So, maybe gcc always puts bytes on an unaligned address and the "packed"-attribute is superfluous, but: I don't care and maybe other compilers have a different opinion about that.. Am I missing something? What is this warning good for except making code generation harder? Sebastian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBRDhWm/81M8QtvOSJAQJQOAgAhYIvsQipGyESaEA1bhKJHIDPv+dmn0mQ 44vstpW8sQr6NkzXkIQm75I321D/bNwvYkv7R4Q53X+1/dvCSbObkxr4Y4mLIWDI aX40tT1OxSLApzCYjJR+f0QFoKWX/67tGPHBzfkTZBNGgTLVyVjgWi/wXUGTaDir IS9m9O6Ik5NoKfvRJFklWcpVXISAI69XqCO52ez1CTqvuIAiTB69P3kcAq5lDShZ a5Hxck04bHObr6W/mJlcDNcDE3NtD0p0TIU5YpjUbM95dDEnw3/2UGXVHOMDjweG 4wbCEvm6Npu9RX1sa/Sfu2Os67MjsB8GqZGIfEdP/N++XDrlRMtUnA== =uHA0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
