Dear Luigi Mantellini, In message <b73e93990901281416k766b2bf3qc6429f77545f9...@mail.gmail.com> you wrote: > > I think that an audit of the code is important to understand if we > have a problem (or not) and how large is the problem.
We (i. e. all of us except you) do not have a problem. > My compiler is not broken... Well, YMMV... > cassini linux # find -name \*.c -o -name \*.h |xargs grep attribute | > grep packed | wc -l > 3153 > > I see a lot of packed structs... > > Here is for example a copy of /usr/include/netinet/ip.h : ... > This doesn't say anything regarding how kernel guys have resolved the > problem (if they are solved...). Checking the kernel headers a lot This is not a kernel header. This is one of the standard user space network headers, and a pretty central one. Feel free to check any others. > I think that "struct packing" needs to be understood and a global I agree on this. This definitely needs to be understood. Hm... I think I understand it, and it works for me :-) > mechanism should be used (like -fpack-struct option always defined or > a style guideline that requires a tag for each structs). From my point I think this is not needed. Please read the docuemntation about alignment and padding. It is pretty clear. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de "And it should be the law: If you use the word `paradigm' without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions." - David Jones @ Megatest Corporation _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
