On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:09:57PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
> >
> > Is there a single blessed way to define packed structures
> > for use in drivers? I suspect that using "#pragma pack(1)"
> > will lead to alignment errors in non-Intel architectures.
>
> Any form of packing is going to cause problems for items that are
> located in illegal fashions.
>
> Having said that, I recommend using __attribute__ ((packed))
> to explicitly request that a structure be packed.
Should the __attribute__ be supplied to each structure's member?
Or can it be the whole structure's attribute?
> > And is it OK to rely on specially crafted structures, like
> > "struct fs" in /sys/ufs/ffs/fs.h where multi-byte elements
> > are pre-aligned by the structure's design, being contiguous?
>
> "rely" in what fashion?
E.g., will the following structure:
struct foo {
int16_t a;
int16_t b;
int32_t c; /* 4-byte boundary */
int64_t d; /* 8-byte boundary */
int8_t e[4];
int32_t f; /* 4-byte boundary */
};
contain alignment holes in any architecture/compiler?
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Yar
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