From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@phunq.net>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: packing structures and numbers
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:27:15 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48E728E3.3090602@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810031743.46998.phillips@phunq.net>
Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Friday 03 October 2008 17:28, Chris Mason wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 05:22:51PM -0700, Daniel Phillips wrote:
>>
>>> ...Are we sure that attribute ((packed)) works the same on all
>>> arches?
>>>
>> As long as you use types with strictly defined size, yes.
>>
>
> Just to be a language lawyer about that... int does not have a
> strictly defined size, yet we define uint32_t as a typedef of int
> on 32 bit arches do we not?
>
What else would you define it to?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-04 8:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-03 11:42 packing structures and numbers Avi Kivity
2008-10-03 12:22 ` Chris Mason
2008-10-03 13:40 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-04 0:22 ` Daniel Phillips
2008-10-04 0:28 ` Chris Mason
2008-10-04 0:35 ` Daniel Phillips
2008-10-04 0:43 ` Daniel Phillips
2008-10-04 8:27 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-10-03 18:37 ` Zach Brown
2008-10-04 8:31 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-04 16:34 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-05 5:31 ` Avi Kivity
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