On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:34:41 +0000
Ralf Baechle <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:39:03PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > Can someone please tell us how this magic works? (And it does appear to
> > work).
> >
> > It seems to assuming that the compiler will assume that members of packed
> > structures can have arbitrary alignment, even if that alignment is obvious.
> >
> > Which makes sense, but I'd like to see chapter-and-verse from the spec or
> > from the gcc docs so we can rely upon it working on all architectures and
> > compilers from now until ever more.
> >
> > IOW: your changlogging sucks ;)
>
> It was my entry for the next edition of the C Puzzle Book ;-)
>
> The whole union thing was only needed to get rid of a warning but Marcel's
> solution does the same thing by attaching the packed keyword to the entire
> structure instead, so this patch is now using his macros but using __packed
> instead.
How do we know this trick will work as-designed across all versions of gcc
and icc (at least) and for all architectures and for all sets of compiler
options?
Basically, it has to be guaranteed by a C standard. Is it?
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