On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:11:12 +0100 Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 06:08:18PM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote: > > > > This still requires a bit of maintenance to set up a kerneltypes.h for every arch. > > Better doing this work once than fixing similar issues again and again. > Agreed. But it raises the bar quite a bit to get this ready for upstream. > > It also means we have to be very careful that gcc's internal alignment settings matched the ones in our header. > > There's nothing "gcc internal" about struct alignment - remember that > any change in struct alignment would change our userspace ABI. > Oh? I would have guessed that everything going to and from userspace would be packed. Should probably consider myself lucky I have do deal with few such interactions. :) Rgds Pierre
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