On 2008-02-13, Oleg Verych <[email protected]> wrote:
> Alignment of members as well as whole structure is arbitrary. That's why
> mspgcc have "packed" attribute, but it's without (implicit for many
> developers) magic.
Are you saying tht the MSP430 backend gcc does not correctly
generate code to access misaligned struct members the way that
other backends (e.g. ARM) do?
> Thus, the only problem for newcomers is that info the mspgcc
> manual is just a tip of the iceberg. TI have no or little info
> on that, compiler vendors do magic.
>
> Maybe mspgcc assembler must just warn about known unaligned
> access in the code,
That would be helpful, but it's probably something the linker
would have to do.
> or docs must have more refs on the subject, or something
> already done in development tree?
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