This is now reverted in master,

  Jarno

> On Mar 16, 2015, at 3:02 PM, Jarno Rajahalme <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> As ofpacts are always 8-byte aligned, I figured it would be nice to let the 
> compiler know about this, so that we could not need casts where this may make 
> a difference. Unfortunately that also increased the size of the struct to 8 
> bytes, and I did not consider the effect this has to all the acttion structs 
> that incorporate ofpact as their first member.
> 
> I’ll revert this patch and fix the resulting issue in the affected patch that 
> is still under review.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>  Jarno
> 
>> On Mar 16, 2015, at 1:14 PM, Alin Serdean <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Ben,
>> 
>> I have sent out a patch 
>> (http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2015-March/052465.html).
>> 
>> If you want to revert back to 4 bytes please tell me.
>> 
>> Alin. 
>> 
>> -----Mesaj original-----
>> De la: dev [mailto:[email protected]] În numele Ben Pfaff
>> Trimis: Friday, March 13, 2015 11:58 PM
>> Către: Nithin Raju
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subiect: Re: [ovs-dev] ofpact alignment problem on Windows
>> 
>> 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=Sqcl0Ez6M0X8aeM67LKIi
>>>> DJAXVeAw-YihVMNtXt-uEs&r=pNHQcdr7B40b4h6Yb7FIedI1dnBsxdDuTLBYD3JqV80
>>>> &m=_gJhXVPL_EOiwr3MKszpi6BRxExM1wVF4rbjzsG2bIU&s=VspKJWfLNZcMDmq38to
>>>> pyQ20jo4JR7Tg6JJTIuzmH0g&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.
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