On Thu, 17 May 2007 10:29:31 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2007 18:09:50 +0300 Artem Bityutskiy > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > umm.. I'd say what you've done in there is an improvement to the > exiting stuff: getting gcc to check it is better than having to use > sparse. > > I'd have expected gcc to generate poorer code with your approach but I'm > showing zero text size changes from Christoph's patch (gcc-4.1 and > gcc-3.4.5). > > On which arch did you try ? X86 where unaligned access are ok ?
On arch that don't support aligned access, packed struct access will be done byte per byte (but it could be the expected behavior if there unaligned access). Matthieu - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
