On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 08:24:12AM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote: > And I just confirmed with the Alpha cross-compiler that the fields are > not 'padded out' if volatile either. They can't be, struct layout is part of the ABI. Guess you can introduce say atomic_bool and similar typedefs which would be bool or char on most arches and on alpha int. Jakub -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html