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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, axboe@suse.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: block layer sg, bsg
Date: 6 Aug 2004 17:04:16 +0200
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 17:04:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040806150416.GA90652@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200408060303.40261.phillips@arcor.de>

> Somewhere I got the idea that if a structure is declared with attribute 
> PACKED, gcc will generate alignment-independent code (e.g., access each field 
> byte by byte) on alignment-restricted architectures.  So if what I imagine 
> about gcc is true, what issues remain?  These structs have to be declared 
> packed anyway and with fixed field sizes, or the layout will vary across 
> architectures.

With packed things should be fine for x86-64/i386. However it may 
generate bad code for other architectures. 

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-06 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <2ppN4-1wi-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <2pvps-5xO-33@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <2pvz2-5Lf-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <2pwbQ-68b-43@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-08-04 17:28       ` block layer sg, bsg Andi Kleen
2004-08-04 17:31         ` Jens Axboe
2004-08-04 19:18         ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-04 19:22           ` David S. Miller
2004-08-04 23:21             ` Andi Kleen
2004-08-04 23:26               ` David S. Miller
2004-08-04 23:51               ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2004-08-05  3:58                 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-06  7:03                   ` Daniel Phillips
2004-08-06 15:04                     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-08-08 19:18                       ` Daniel Phillips
2004-08-05 11:49                 ` Andi Kleen
2004-08-06  3:46                   ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2004-08-06  4:19                     ` David S. Miller
2004-08-06 13:20                       ` Andi Kleen
2004-08-06 18:28                         ` David S. Miller
2004-08-06 11:04                     ` Andi Kleen
2004-08-04  8:50 Jens Axboe
2004-08-04 14:52 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-04 15:04   ` Jens Axboe
2004-08-04 15:44     ` David S. Miller
2004-08-04 15:48       ` Jens Axboe
2004-08-04 15:56       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-04 15:58         ` Jens Axboe
2004-08-04 23:11           ` Douglas Gilbert

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