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Subject: Re: pahole - Finding holes in kernel structs
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Julian Stacey schreef:
>> 1) Is it worth my time trying to rearrange structs? 
> 
> I wondered whether as a sensitivity test, some version of gcc (or
> its competitor ?) might have capability to automatically re-order
> variables ?  but found nothing in man gcc "Optimization Options".
There is a __packed attribute, I don't know what it exactly does and 
whether it is an improvement.

-- Jille
> 
> Cheers,
> Julian