On 3/14/06, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 04:27 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > I thought that was unnecessary if the struct members are ordered such > > that compiler would not add padding? > > the rules for when padding gets added are different for each platform > though; worst case of adding it is that it serves as documentation that > the layout matters :) I thought the worst case of adding it is that GCC produces awful code when accessing structure members for __attribute__((packed)) items[1]. Maybe -Wpadded would be better? [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108829229128091 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
