On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> wrote: > (re-adding xen-devel) > >>>> On 22.01.15 at 17:54, <tamas.leng...@zentific.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 5:34 PM, Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> wrote: >>>>>> On 22.01.15 at 17:23, <tamas.leng...@zentific.com> wrote: >>>> Wouldn't making the >>>> struct packed just take care of it automatically? >>> >>> How would you envision to do that without using compiler >>> extensions? >> >> My understanding of making the struct packed is that there is simply >> no alignment and padding. Thus, it would look the same on 32-bit and >> 64-bit as the size of each member is explicitly the same on each >> architecture. Am I missing something here? > > But isn't that exactly what I suggested by adding explicit padding? > If not, please give an example. > > Jan
Ack, I was thinking of using __attribute__((packed)) but I see your point now that that's a gcc extensions. So we are going to have to do it by hand as you said. Tamas _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
