Re: [PATCH 1/1] drivers: brcmaxi: provide amba axi functionality in separate module

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On 03/31/2011 03:51 PM, Russell King wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 03:48:20PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> How it can? Packed only tells the compiler to have one byte alignment
>> steps. And it should not matter here as all the members are 32-bit long.
> 
> It also tells the compiler that it may be misaligned, so to avoid
> alignment faults it will use byte loads/stores.

No, it should not (if offsetof % sizeof == 0). Otherwise it's a bug in
the compiler.

Am I missing something?

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs
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