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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
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> It would be better if GCC had a 'nopadding' attribute which gave us 
> what
> we need without the _extra_ implications about alignment.

That's impossible; removing the padding from a struct
_will_ make accesses to its members unaligned (think
about arrays of that struct).


Segher