From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: "Robert White" <rwhite@casabyte.com>
Cc: oliver@neukum.org, scott@timesys.com, zaitcev@redhat.com,
greg@kroah.com, arjanv@redhat.com, jgarzik@redhat.com,
tburke@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stern@rowland.harvard.edu, mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net,
david-b@pacbell.net
Subject: Re: drivers/block/ub.c
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:15:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040628191545.7a298bc3.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAA2ZSI4XW+fk25FhAf9BqjtMKAAAAQAAAAdh8B1uF8jku6cyB2zk3ojwEAAAAA@casabyte.com>
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:54:46 -0700
"Robert White" <rwhite@casabyte.com> wrote:
> The below makes no sense to me... Nothing in the definition of struct bar{} (which
> is not packed) infers (top me) in the slightest that foo should be unnaturally
> aligned within it.
First of all, it is what the compiler does and has done since the
__packed__ attribute was added.
Second of all, you are asking it to "PACK" the structure, this includes
any place you place it within other data objects. It becomes an N-byte
blob that has no alignment constraints must be placed exactly where it
is declared.
I am growing very tired of this thread.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-29 2:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-26 20:06 drivers/block/ub.c Pete Zaitcev
2004-06-26 20:12 ` drivers/block/ub.c Matthew Dharm
2004-06-27 2:08 ` drivers/block/ub.c Pete Zaitcev
2004-06-27 3:30 ` drivers/block/ub.c Matthew Dharm
2004-07-12 0:10 ` [usb-storage] drivers/block/ub.c Pat LaVarre
2004-06-26 20:35 ` drivers/block/ub.c Oliver Neukum
2004-06-26 21:41 ` drivers/block/ub.c David S. Miller
2004-06-26 21:56 ` drivers/block/ub.c Oliver Neukum
2004-06-26 22:07 ` drivers/block/ub.c David S. Miller
2004-06-26 22:36 ` drivers/block/ub.c Oliver Neukum
2004-06-26 23:20 ` drivers/block/ub.c David S. Miller
2004-06-27 4:31 ` drivers/block/ub.c Oliver Neukum
2004-06-27 6:34 ` drivers/block/ub.c David S. Miller
2004-06-27 10:42 ` drivers/block/ub.c Oliver Neukum
2004-06-27 21:26 ` drivers/block/ub.c David S. Miller
2004-06-28 14:15 ` drivers/block/ub.c Scott Wood
2004-06-28 20:25 ` drivers/block/ub.c David S. Miller
2004-06-28 20:48 ` drivers/block/ub.c Scott Wood
2004-06-28 20:58 ` drivers/block/ub.c David S. Miller
2004-06-28 20:50 ` drivers/block/ub.c Matthew Dharm
2004-06-28 20:59 ` drivers/block/ub.c David S. Miller
2004-06-28 21:01 ` drivers/block/ub.c Pete Zaitcev
2004-06-28 23:52 ` drivers/block/ub.c Matthew Dharm
2004-06-28 20:57 ` drivers/block/ub.c Oliver Neukum
2004-06-28 21:03 ` drivers/block/ub.c David S. Miller
2004-06-28 21:18 ` drivers/block/ub.c Scott Wood
2004-06-28 22:22 ` drivers/block/ub.c David S. Miller
2004-06-28 22:31 ` drivers/block/ub.c Scott Wood
2004-06-28 22:40 ` drivers/block/ub.c Roland Dreier
2004-06-29 1:54 ` drivers/block/ub.c Robert White
2004-06-29 2:15 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-06-29 2:49 ` drivers/block/ub.c Robert White
2004-06-29 18:31 ` drivers/block/ub.c Andy Isaacson
2004-07-05 10:01 ` drivers/block/ub.c Roman Zippel
2004-06-29 7:12 ` drivers/block/ub.c Vojtech Pavlik
2004-06-29 1:39 ` drivers/block/ub.c Robert White
2004-06-29 17:02 ` drivers/block/ub.c Kurt Garloff
2004-06-26 22:54 ` drivers/block/ub.c Andries Brouwer
2004-06-26 22:59 ` drivers/block/ub.c Oliver Neukum
2004-06-26 23:08 ` drivers/block/ub.c Andries Brouwer
2004-06-27 5:04 ` drivers/block/ub.c Oliver Neukum
2004-06-27 14:08 ` drivers/block/ub.c Andries Brouwer
2004-06-27 14:24 ` drivers/block/ub.c Oliver Neukum
2004-06-27 15:19 ` drivers/block/ub.c Alan Stern
2004-06-27 15:45 ` drivers/block/ub.c Andries Brouwer
2004-06-28 23:58 ` drivers/block/ub.c Jeff Garzik
2004-06-28 0:10 ` drivers/block/ub.c Pete Zaitcev
2004-06-28 16:01 ` drivers/block/ub.c Alan Stern
2004-06-27 15:23 ` drivers/block/ub.c Andries Brouwer
2004-06-27 16:11 ` drivers/block/ub.c Oliver Neukum
2004-06-26 22:46 ` drivers/block/ub.c Oliver Neukum
2004-06-27 3:52 ` drivers/block/ub.c Alan Stern
2004-06-27 4:05 ` drivers/block/ub.c Alan Stern
2004-06-27 5:02 ` drivers/block/ub.c Greg KH
2004-06-27 15:23 ` drivers/block/ub.c Alan Stern
2004-06-27 20:29 ` drivers/block/ub.c Pete Zaitcev
2004-06-27 21:03 ` drivers/block/ub.c Matthew Dharm
2004-06-28 15:40 ` drivers/block/ub.c Alan Stern
2004-06-28 16:42 ` drivers/block/ub.c Oliver Neukum
2004-06-28 19:50 ` drivers/block/ub.c Alan Stern
2004-06-27 5:35 ` drivers/block/ub.c Matthew Dharm
2004-06-27 15:28 ` drivers/block/ub.c Alan Stern
2004-06-27 22:56 ` drivers/block/ub.c David Brownell
2004-06-27 23:43 ` drivers/block/ub.c Pete Zaitcev
2004-06-28 15:05 ` drivers/block/ub.c David Brownell
2004-06-28 15:56 ` drivers/block/ub.c Alan Stern
2004-06-28 16:23 ` drivers/block/ub.c David Brownell
2004-06-28 16:46 ` drivers/block/ub.c Oliver Neukum
2004-06-28 17:13 ` drivers/block/ub.c David Brownell
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2004-06-27 23:57 ` drivers/block/ub.c Pete Zaitcev
2004-06-29 11:05 ` drivers/block/ub.c Jeff Garzik
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