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Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:59:48 +0200
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
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Subject: Re: [Patch 04/18] include/linux/logfs.h
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> writes:
> Won't a simple struct { uint16_t } get padded to a size of 4 bytes on
> ARM? Even if I'm misremembering that, I certainly can't guarantee that
> such a thing will _never_ happen on any newly-invented ABI. If you had
> 'nopadding' instead of 'packed', then there's no need to emit code to
> handle unaligned loads.
You can add aligned(N) to increase the alignment again.
Andreas.
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