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Date:      Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:43:47 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
To:        =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        svn-src-projects@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r195460 - projects/mesh11s/sys/net80211
Message-ID:  <20090710143710.S47337@delplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <86prc9g8yf.fsf@ds4.des.no>
References:  <200907081526.n68FQYDb055185@svn.freebsd.org> <20090709041145.G46111@delplex.bde.org> <86prc9g8yf.fsf@ds4.des.no>

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On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, [utf-8] Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav wrote:

> Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> writes:
>> Broken ABIs (e.g., arm?) may add padding at the end of structs,
>
> Padding at the end of a struct is *required* to ensure proper alignment
> of the next element in an array, e.g.

Not for arrays of uint8_t's, which were the subject of discussion.  I
should have written "may add unnatural padding".  unnatural :=3D not
required for alignment of any member in the struct.

Bruce
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