Hi Richard,
On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 10:17 PM Richard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On August 28, 2023 11:26:58 AM UTC, Richard <[email protected]> wrote:
> >On August 28, 2023 7:00:07 AM UTC, Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
> >wrote:
> >>On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 11:36 AM James Le Cuirot
> >><[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> On Sun, 2023-08-27 at 10:46 +1000, Finn Thain wrote:
> >>Perhaps we need a new compiler warning: "hole in structure due to
> >>non-natural alignment, please consider adding explicit padding"?
> >
> >Sounds reasonable but I am afraid in 99% of cases this would be completely
> >irrelevant and not break anything so the acceptance would be pretty low.
>
> On a second thought, that warning might get some acceptance if it is
> formulated slightly differently.. making it more clear that the way the
> struct is arranged will waste memory in addition to creating potential
> portability problems?
It will not always waste memory, only if some members can be moved
into holes.
Anyway, not wasting memory is merely an optimization.
Creating portability problems is a bug,
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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