On February 29, 2016 4:41:49 AM PST, Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >Agreed that many architectures issue slower instructions when reading >from packed structures, which is unwanted. > And detrimental to atomicity. >Could we require that each field be naturally aligned and require that >they are placed so _no_ padding whatsoever should ever be added by the >compiler ? If that's possible, then we could remove the packed. What people have been trying to tell you is that we *must* do this, and no compiler truck like packed will help. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse brevity and formatting. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
