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Date:      Mon, 23 Sep 2002 20:28:16 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/pci tsunamireg.h src/sys/boot/ia64/skiload main.c src/sys/i386/include npx.h src/sys/ia64/include reg.h signal.h src/sys/sys cdefs.h
Message-ID:  <20020923202345.K17455-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020923061917.GG6262@elvis.mu.org>

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On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> * Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org> [020922 22:55] wrote:
> > peter       2002/09/22 22:55:11 PDT
> >   ...
> >   There are over 400 __attribute__((packed)) to deal with, that can come
> >   later.  I just want to use __packed in new code rather than add more
> >   gcc-ism's.
>
> I really like what you've done, however don't you think that the
> places that do not have __packed/__aligned shouldn't have it defined
> to nothing...  therefore you can add:
>
> #ifndef __packed
> #error you must define __packed or bad things will happen
> #endif
> #ifndef __aligned
> #error you must define __aligned or bad things will happen
> #endif
>
> Otherwise people may get compiled but very broken code
> which most likely will be in critical things like device
> drivers.

I just noticed the -Wpacked warning.  This can be used to detect
unnecessary uses of __packed.  __packed should only be used for historical
or foreign poorly layed out structs.

Bruce


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