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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] sparse: Allow override of sizeof(bool) warning
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 08:52:19 -0800
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On 02/27/2014 08:10 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 
> That last assumption has to change for the Meta architecture.
> 
> https://lwn.net/Articles/522188/
> 
> On meta, the structs and unions are padded to 4 bytes unless they are
> explicitly marked as __packed.
> 

One have to wonder how likely they are to have that not continually break...

	-hpa