On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Sergei Organov wrote:

> IMHO aligned(N) should be used in portable code only to *increase*
> alignment (this effectively excludes usage of 'packed'), and then the
> alignment won't affect the low-level operations, that automatically
> answers your question. Simple?

If you don't consider the alignment attribute to be part of the type, then 
you can indeed express "16-bit-little-endian-unsigned-integer-unaligned" 
as a C type.  In fact __le16 expresses it perfectly all except for the 
"unaligned" part, which you agree doesn't belong in the type.

Alan Stern


-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security?
Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier.
Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo
http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642
_______________________________________________
linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
To unsubscribe, use the last form field at:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel

Reply via email to