[U-Boot] packed attribute problem

[Vipin Kumar <vipin.kumar@st.com>]

On 10/4/2010 6:13 PM, Reinhard Meyer wrote:
>> > bar:
>> >         @ Function supports interworking.
>> >         @ args = 0, pretend = 0, frame = 0
>> >         @ frame_needed = 0, uses_anonymous_args = 0
>> >         @ link register save eliminated.
>> >         @ lr needed for prologue
>> >         mov     r2, #5
>> >         mov     r3, #4096
>> >         str     r2, [r3, #0]
>> >         bx      lr
>> >         .size   bar, .-bar
>> >         .ident  "GCC: (GNU) 4.2.2"
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Note that this is with GCC 4.2.2. Even GCC 4.0.0 behaves the same, so
>> > this is *not* an issue with very recent tool chains.
> OK, for directly adressing elements inside a packed struct;
> but the original post said:
> 
> "struct xyz {
> 	int	x;
> 	int	y;
> 	int	z[CONST];
> } __attribute__ ((packed));
> 
> struct xyz *abc;
> u32 * status_reg = (u32 *)&abc->z[0];
> 
> writel(status, status_reg);"
> 
> So the "status_reg" pointer is in a completely unrelated (to the packed struct)
> "u32 *" and still the access is done like it was packed. If the
> compiler silently drags that attribute along into the "u32 *"
> THAT is really sick!
> 

Yes, This is exactly what I wanted to point out. I can see this behavior with 
gcc-4.5.0 but the same code works well with gcc-4.2.4

Vipin