Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:30:46 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com> To: Yar Tikhiy <yar@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@freebsd-services.com Subject: Re: Driver structures & alignment Message-ID: <200109132130.f8DLUkd97146@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Yar Tikhiy <yar@FreeBSD.ORG> of "Thu, 13 Sep 2001 23:23:52 %2B0400." <20010913232352.A23874@snark.rinet.ru>
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> Hi there,
>
> Is there a single blessed way to define packed structures
> for use in drivers? I suspect that using "#pragma pack(1)"
> will lead to alignment errors in non-Intel architectures.
gcc deals with it, certainly on alpha anyway. However, I don't think
anyone would ever bless using packed structures as it hurts memory
transfers.
I prefer the fix-it-up-when-I-need-it-packed approach :*)
> --
> Yar
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