Andrew Stubbs <andrew.stu...@linaro.org> wrote on 21.02.2012 11:56:07:
> I'm not sure, but I believe that the compiler requires (prefers) any > structs that you want included inside packed structs to be themselves > packed, so you can end up with some structs with apparently unnecessary > attributes on them. I don't see why the compiler would care. Its just that if an inner struct already has padding somewhere, this padding doesn't go away (the struct layout is not recomputed) just because it is embedded in a larger struct which is marked packed. [Marking the outer struct packed will still affect the overall alignment requirement of the inner struct; it just won't affect it inner layout.] > It might also have an effect when you place the struct inside an > unpacked struct? Yes, of course: if the struct is packed, then the struct as a whole has an alignment requirement of 1, which may affect the placement of the struct as an element within an outside (unpacked) struct. > Without context I've no idea whether that's what's going on here. Of > course, a no-op "packed" attribute ought to be harmless... It is not really "no-op": it reduces the alignment requirement of the struct from 2 (in this case) to 1, which is actually exactly what's causing the problems in the original test case. Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards Ulrich Weigand -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand | Phone: +49-7031/16-3727 STSM, GNU compiler and toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell/B.E. IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Vorsitzende des Aufsichtsrats: Martina Koederitz | Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen | Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
