On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 04:52:34PM +0800, Michael Chang wrote:
> When building with GCC 8, there are several errors regarding 
> packed-not-aligned.
>
> ./include/grub/gpt_partition.h:79:1: error: alignment 1 of ???struct 
> grub_gpt_partentry??? is less than 8 [-Werror=packed-not-aligned]
>
> This patch tries to fix the build error by cleaning up the ambiguity of 
> placing

s/tries to fix/fixes/?

> aligned structure in a packed one. In "struct grub_btrfs_time" and "struct
> grub_gpt_part_type", the aligned attribute seems to be superfluous, and also
> has to be packed, to ensure the structure is bit-to-bit mapped to the format
> laid on disk. I think we could blame to copy and paste error here for the
> mistake. In "struct efi_variable", we have to use grub_efi_packed_guid_t, as
> the name suggests. :)
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Chang <mch...@suse.com>
> Tested-by: Michael Chang <mch...@suse.com>

Otherwise, Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>

If there are no objections I will apply this in a week or so.

Daniel

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