On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 01:49:46PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 1:41 PM Luc Van Oostenryck
> <luc.vanoostenryck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I also have 2 questions here under.
> >
> > > struct bad {
> > > unsigned long long a;
> > > char b[];
> > > };
> > ...
> > > // The layout is odd
> > > // The code does "info->align_size = 0" for unsized arrays, but it
> > > still works?
> > > int odd(struct bad *a)
> > > {
> > > return __alignof__(*a);
> > > }
> >
> > This returns 8. What's odd here?
>
> The fact that it works correctly.
For info, it was just a coincidence. The returned value correspond
to the value 'max_align' which was not reset. This is now fixed in
the series I just posted.
Best regards,
-- Luc
