> Lol... we're actively moving away from the C standard on many places. Yes and also packed is not part of the C standard.
> Why does the silly compiler think it is a problem to take the address of > a member of a packed structure? That sounds like something that's > perfectly fine and useful. Probably because a pointer reference doesn't do whatever magic may be needed on architectures with poor misalignment handling. In theory you would need memcpy(). In practice it's likely a lot of false positives, like the architectures with poor misalignment handling are usually in SOCs without PCI and they don't have the devices with the problematic drivers. -Andi
