> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike Smith writes:
> : Any form of packing is going to cause problems for items that are
> : located in illegal fashions.
>
> It is almost more appropriate to use bus_space_{read,write} than using
> memory mapped structures. The bus macros will work for otherwise
> unaligned thigns, while direct access won't. Also, the
> compiler/system may optimize things in strange ways that cause
> problems. Do yourself a big favor and don't go down this path.
The most common use for alignment-sensitive data structures nowadays
is in control structures exchanged with devices via busmaster DMA.
Needless to say, the bus_space functions aren't very useful for this, and
controlled alignment is necessary.
Even then, I really want a mechanical way of generating a stub function to
correct endianness in a structure based on the structure definition; we have
a lot of drivers that are explicitly little-endian due to all this.
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