Re: need for packed attribute

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On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 06:38:46PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > /* All standard descriptors have these 2 fields at the beginning */
> > struct usb_descriptor_header {
> > 	__u8  bLength;
> > 	__u8  bDescriptorType;
> > };
> 
> sizeof(struct usb_descriptor_header) will be 4 on ARM.  If this
> concerns you, you need to pack the structure thusly:

Interesting.  Perhaps we should add -Wpadded to CFLAGS in order to remind 
people, although that might take a fair bit of work to clean up existing 
structure definitions.

		-ben
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