I think that just deleting the "pad" member would fix the problem in the short-term. I don't know whether it's the fix we want long-term, since it wastes memory.
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 09:47:59PM +0000, Nithin Raju wrote: > Thanks Ben for reporting this. One of the Hyper-V developers will provide a > fix, if not for Jarno. > > -- Nithin > > > On Mar 13, 2015, at 1:57 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The appveyor build on Windows failed (see > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ci.appveyor.com_project_blp_ovs_build_1.0.41-29-3A&d=AwIGaQ&c=Sqcl0Ez6M0X8aeM67LKIiDJAXVeAw-YihVMNtXt-uEs&r=pNHQcdr7B40b4h6Yb7FIedI1dnBsxdDuTLBYD3JqV80&m=_gJhXVPL_EOiwr3MKszpi6BRxExM1wVF4rbjzsG2bIU&s=VspKJWfLNZcMDmq38topyQ20jo4JR7Tg6JJTIuzmH0g&e= > > > > > > c:\openvswitch\lib\ofp-actions.h(461) : error C2229: struct > > 'ofpact_nest' has an illegal zero-sized array > > c:\openvswitch\lib\ofp-actions.h(756) : error C2719: 'a': formal > > parameter with __declspec(align('8')) won't be aligned > > c:\openvswitch\lib\ofp-actions.h(756) : error C2719: 'b': formal > > parameter with __declspec(align('8')) won't be aligned > > > > That's about this code: > > > > 458 struct ofpact_nest { > > 459 struct ofpact ofpact; > > 460 uint8_t pad[PAD_SIZE(sizeof(struct ofpact), OFPACT_ALIGNTO)]; > > 461 struct ofpact actions[]; > > 462 }; > > > > I agree with it that pad[] is zero bytes long now, since "struct > > ofpact" is now 8 bytes long. That's a bit wasteful don't you think > > since only 4 bytes of it is actually used? I guess the solution would > > be to remove pad[] or to shrink struct ofpact back to 4 bytes. > > _______________________________________________ > > dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__openvswitch.org_mailman_listinfo_dev&d=AwIGaQ&c=Sqcl0Ez6M0X8aeM67LKIiDJAXVeAw-YihVMNtXt-uEs&r=pNHQcdr7B40b4h6Yb7FIedI1dnBsxdDuTLBYD3JqV80&m=_gJhXVPL_EOiwr3MKszpi6BRxExM1wVF4rbjzsG2bIU&s=H9RnmmV_GTfF3c_epOW0gjNETJx_3TzrWiH1QTtSCMc&e= > > > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
