linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/18 ver2] libosd: OSDv1 Headers

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Message-ID: <20081110151733.GB16520@logfs.org>
Date:	Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:17:33 +0100
From:	Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org>
To:	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>
Cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	open-osd development <osd-dev@...n-osd.org>,
	Mike Christie <michaelc@...wisc.edu>,
	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>, Sami.Iren@...gate.com,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/18 ver2] libosd: OSDv1 Headers

On Mon, 10 November 2008 10:47:07 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> 
> If the assembly - size and offsets - of foo is exactly the same with or
> without the __packed, but the generated code is different then clearly this
> is a compiler bug. I've herd of this myth before, and at least with my
> gcc 4.1.2 there is no such bug. Either the structure gets packed, or there is
> no difference. All the places I have __packed in the code are absolutely must
> be so, stated by the protocol.

Ok, if current compilers are fine, I won't complain.

Jörn

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