On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 at 17:50, Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > > On Aug 21, 2019, at 10:57 AM, Alexander Monakov <amona...@ispras.ru> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 21 Aug 2019, Paul Koning wrote: > > > >> I agree, but if the new approach generates a warning for code that was > >> written > >> to the old rules, that would be unfortunate. > > > > FWIW I don't know which GCC versions accepted 'packed' on a scalar type. > > That wasn't what I meant; I was talking about the packed and aligned > attributes on struct members. I thought you were saying that > ((packed,aligned(2))) is now a warning. That doesn't appear to be the case, > though; it's accepted without complaint as it always was.
Right, nobody's suggesting that should be a warning. The warning is for trying to pack a scalar variable, which is (and always was) meaningless.
