On Thursday 31 March 2011, Jiri Slaby wrote: > I don't see why it couldn't like without the packed attribute. (The > manual says packed attribute for a struct is equivalent to specifying > packed to each member of that struct. It doesn't say anything about the > structure alignment itself.) To give some more background, any variable that is marked packed is assumed to be potentially unaligned (byte aligned). If a struct contains only members with byte alignment, it too is byte aligned. Arnd _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel