Nicholas Clark writes:
> prev = sizeof(struct NodeDescriptor);
>
> which is 16. :-)
Try adding __attribute__((packed)) to the structure.
> Or is the whole scheme used by hfs ANSIly flawed, and for true
> portability it can only use one contiguous char array, as structures
> can be padded between any members?
Yes, hfs is ANSI-ly flawed - as far as ANSI is concerned, GCC is not doing
anything illegal - it can pad structures all that it wants, so long as it
doesn't change the order of the elements.
Unfortunately, this behaviour of GCC for ARM is not what a lot of people
expect.
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