[Xenomai-core] Re: Magics of [CAN] message filtering

[Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@domain.hid>]

Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
>> When you're touching anything inside your API, have you ever thought to add
>>
>> __attribute__ ((aligned(8)))
>>
>> to the data[8] element of the struct can_frame?
>>
>> This would enable you to make 64 bit compares directly in the data
>> section of the can_frame ...
>>
>> typedef __u32 canid_t;
>>
>> struct can_frame {
>>     canid_t can_id;  /* 32 bit CAN_ID + EFF/RTR/ERR flags */
>>     __u8    can_dlc; /* data length code: 0 .. 8 */
>>     __u8    data[8] __attribute__ ((aligned(8)));
>> };
> 
> [Swallowing down my well-known opinion on typeof(can_dlc) :)]
> 
> Yes, this should be done, already for the more urging sake of
> unambiguous layout of the structure across the kernel/user space border.

Is this not already the case? At least the size of struct can_frame is 
16 bytes.

Wolfgang.