In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "David O'Brien" writes:
: On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 12:13:58PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "David O'Brien" writes:
: > : It is best to order this from largest to smallest size if you are worried
: > : about alignment holes, etc.
: > :
: > : int64_t d; /* 8-byte boundary */
: > : int32_t c; /* 4-byte boundary */
: > : int32_t f; /* 4-byte boundary */
: > : int16_t a;
: > : int16_t b;
: > : int8_t e[4];
: >
: > unfortunately, there are many device structures that are passed around
: > via DMA and hte like that don't let you do this...
:
: How come? The struct represents some [semi-]physical organization?
Because the hardware designer may have done silly things. These are
hardware data structures.
Warner
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