David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Won't a simple struct { uint16_t } get padded to a size of 4 bytes on > ARM? Even if I'm misremembering that, I certainly can't guarantee that > such a thing will _never_ happen on any newly-invented ABI. If you had > 'nopadding' instead of 'packed', then there's no need to emit code to > handle unaligned loads. You can add aligned(N) to increase the alignment again. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@xxxxxxx SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." - 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