On 09/02/2025 22:16, Ilya Maximets wrote: > Ideally we would have a proper union with all the potential option types > instead of this hacky construct. But if that's not the the way to go, then > 8 bytes may indeed be the way, as it is the maximum guaranteed alignment > for allocations and the current alignment of the structure. > > But I'll leave this for others to weigh in.
Thank you Ilya. Unless anyone has a better idea, I'm going to add an explicit alignment to the options field, that would keep the struct layout as it was before this patch. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
