It would be better if GCC had a 'nopadding' attribute which gave us whatwe need without the _extra_ implications about alignment.
That's impossible; removing the padding from a struct _will_ make accesses to its members unaligned (think about arrays of that struct). Segher - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html