Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Falk Hueffner wrote:
>> Note also that the program will not work as intended, because (as soon
>> as gcc is fixed) all the packedness is ignored. So I clone this bug.
>
> Thanks for the confirmation. Personally I think packed structures are a
> horrible idea. Presumably if all the classes involved are changed to be
> POD, they'll become packed again?
Yes.
> (In practice I don't think it makes a difference, as the class
> members appear to be naturally aligned without any need for padding
> bytes.)
Well, it looks like the code attempts to cast random unaligned char*'s
to class pointers, so there needs to be precaution against
unalignedness.
--
Falk
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