ron minnich wrote:
> not sure where this is, but why are we using packed anyway? it's just
> asking for trouble.
>   
Because without packed you can not use structs to describe hardware.

GCC is allowed to change the alignment of struct members at will. And it
does.

Just curious:
Why would you say packed is asking for trouble?




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