On 07/06/2016 12:11, Dan Bugnar wrote:
> From: Dan Bugnar <dnbug...@ocedo.com>
> 
> The next message needs to be written after the data of current message.
> This was adding "sizeof(struct log_head)" bytes between messages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Bugnar <danut...@gmail.com>

coming back to these patches, i fail to see why you remove the padding.
this will guarantee that struct log_head pointers are always 4 byte
aligned, thus preventing unaligned accesses from happening. imho the
code should nt be changed, it is there for a reason.

        John

> ---
>  log/syslog.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/log/syslog.c b/log/syslog.c
> index e8b6774..2042e93 100644
> --- a/log/syslog.c
> +++ b/log/syslog.c
> @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ static regex_t pat_tstamp;
>  static struct log_head*
>  log_next(struct log_head *h, int size)
>  {
> -     struct log_head *n = (struct log_head *) &h->data[PAD(sizeof(struct 
> log_head) + size)];
> +     struct log_head *n = (struct log_head *) &h->data[size];
>  
>       return (n >= log_end) ? (log) : (n);
>  }
> 

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