On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just curious: > Why would you say packed is asking for trouble? > it's actually burned me in the past, but I am fine with it when needed. It's not needed for sysinfo for example. Some of our uses seem gratuitous. There are cases where people naively used packed and ended up slowing down the programs by several orders of magnitude (on alpha for example). The Xen guys used it at first and then removed it. It's worth avoiding if you can. ron -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
