David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
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