On 12/28/2011 07:30 AM, dmitry pervushin wrote:
> If you're using memory-mapped structure, shouldn't it be announced with
> __attribute__(packed) ?

Why?  We know this isn't going to be compiled on some strange ABI where
a struct with nothing but u32 gets padding.  __attribute__((packed))
also tells GCC the struct itself could be unaligned which is not true.

-Scott

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