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Yar Tikhiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:19:58AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > :
: > : BTW, you are responsible for the __packed in <netinet/ip.h>. Please
remove
: > : it. The __CTASSERT() is enough to detect if heroic packing is ever
needed.
: > : The only danger is if something has grown to depend on __packed reducing
: > : alignment as a side effect. E.g., suppose we had a byte string containing
: > : a bytewise copy of a struct ip. If the copy might be misaligned, then it
: > : should be copied to an actual struct ip before accessing it as a struct,
: > : but code that accesses it directly using ((struct ip *)&bs[N]) would work
: > : now due to the reduced alignment. Places that really need __packed should
: > : probably use __aligned() to restore the natural alignment.
: >
: > DO NOT REMOVE IT. IT IS ABSOLUTELY REQUIRED FOR ARM TO WORK RIGHT.
: > If you want to remove it, then you must make sure arm works right
: > after it because I'll add it back.
:
: Many years ago I was taught that comments in code could help to
: avoid such clashes in software development. Is this true no more? ;-)
You don't add comments like:
i++; // Add one to i.
This is a similar class. It is for any compiler that has differing
alignment requirements than i386.
Warner
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