On Thu, 17 Jul 2014, Jan Vesely wrote: > why not use __attribute__ ((aligned(X))) for explicit padding?
That’s ① GCC-specific and ② relies on environmental guarantees that cannot always be given (e.g. you cannot align a struct more than the stack alignment if it is ever passed on the stack; for static or auto storage, it relies on the linker; for malloc, it relies on libc). The approach here is not to make the struct aligned, but rather, to make it consistent within itself. In a portable way, even (although we do use GCC 4.9 on Debian/m68k). bye, //mirabilos -- «MyISAM tables -will- get corrupted eventually. This is a fact of life. » “mysql is about as much database as ms access” – “MSSQL at least descends from a database” “it's a rebranded SyBase” “MySQL however was born from a flatfile and went downhill from there” – “at least jetDB doesn’t claim to be a database” ‣‣‣ Please, http://deb.li/mysql and MariaDB, finally die! _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
