Andy Whitcroft schrieb:
> This structure represents an on-disk/on-the-wire thing, should we not be
> specifying it in some architecture neutral way? You are going to get
> the length right in the case of tail padding but not in the face of any
> other padding internally.
>
> You see packing attributes applied to similar things in the kernel.
> Perhaps they are relevant here?
> Is there not some kind of attribute thing we can apply to this structure
> to prevent the padding? You see that in the kernel from time to time.
>
> struct foo {
> } __attribute__((packed));
Yes, that would be nice, but unfortunately __attribute__ is no standard
C. Is there really a compiler that inserts padding between arrays of
unsigned chars?
Thanks,
René
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