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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
	Allen Martin <AMartin@nvidia.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, prakash@punnoor.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sata_nv ADMA/NCQ support for nForce4
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:54:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45354320.6030009@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adaslhmu8mt.fsf@cisco.com>

Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Mark> I was thinking more about the non wordsized fields, such as
>     Mark> the various u8 bytes that gcc will lay out differently
>     Mark> depending upon endianess.
> 
> I don't know of any gcc version that changes the order of struct
> fields.  You might be thinking of bitfields, which are laid out in an
> endian-dependent way.

Ack.  And also thinking about other compilers I work with,
which apparently are not so friendly.

You are correct -- I just verified it (again) for myself on x86 & PPC,
and the layout of u8 doesn't change.

Cheers!

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-17 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-07  8:08 [RFC PATCH] nForce4 ADMA with NCQ: It's aliiiive Robert Hancock
2006-10-07  9:42 ` Prakash Punnoor
2006-10-07 15:54   ` Robert Hancock
2006-10-10  6:44     ` Allen Martin
2006-10-10  6:44       ` Allen Martin
2006-10-10  7:52       ` Prakash Punnoor
2006-11-30 16:46       ` Prakash Punnoor
2006-12-01  0:07         ` Robert Hancock
2006-10-07 15:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-07 23:49   ` Robert Hancock
2006-10-10  6:52   ` Allen Martin
2006-10-10  6:52     ` Allen Martin
2006-10-11  5:07     ` Robert Hancock
2006-10-11 10:30       ` Jens Axboe
2006-10-13  3:17         ` Robert Hancock
2006-10-13  8:04           ` Jens Axboe
2006-10-17  3:34             ` [PATCH] sata_nv ADMA/NCQ support for nForce4 Robert Hancock
2006-10-17  3:37               ` Mark Lord
2006-10-17  4:24                 ` Robert Hancock
2006-10-17 16:22                   ` Mark Lord
2006-10-17 17:58                     ` Roland Dreier
2006-10-17 20:54                       ` Mark Lord [this message]
2006-10-16 16:17           ` [RFC PATCH] nForce4 ADMA with NCQ: It's aliiiive Mark Lord
2006-10-16 23:40             ` Robert Hancock
2006-10-17  0:04               ` Mark Lord

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