On 02/03/2014 04:58 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 09:57:39PM +0800, Chen Gang wrote:
>> It seems, our kernel still stick to treate 'pack' region have effect
>> with both 'align' and 'sizeof'.
>>
>
> It's not about packed regions. It's about unions. It's saying the
> sizeof() a union is a multiple of 4 unless it's packed.
>
> union foo {
> short x;
> short y;
> };
>
> The author intended the sizeof(union foo) to be 2 but on metag arch then
> it is 4.
>
Yeah, just like your original discussion. :-)
Hmm... can we say: "for metag compiler, in a pack region, it considers
variables alignment, but does not consider about struct/union alignment
(except append packed to each related struct/union)".
For compatible (consider about its ABI), it has to keep this features,
but for kernel, it needs be changed.
So, I suggest to add one parameter to compiler to switch this feature,
and append this parameter to KBUILD_CFLAGS in "arch/metag/Makefile"
which can satisfy both ABI and kernel.
Thanks.
--
Chen Gang
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