Am Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007 23:48 schrieb Pete Zaitcev:
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 13:08:19 -0800, Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > [btw, I truly have little idea about which are those specific costs,
> > out of professional curiosity, got any pointers?]
>
> http://www.digitalvampire.org/blog/articles/2006/07/31/why-you-shouldnt-use-__attribute__-packed
>
> This is only an example though, and depending on the situation you might
> want to trade traps for bloat or vice versa. I am not against using
> the packed attribute, I'm against using it without thinking.
>
> > How do suggest we tackle this issue?
>
> I would access by byte. But keep doing what you're doing. It's a David's
> code, and Itanium is dead like a stone anyway. I only want you to know
> that __attribute((__packed__)) is hardly superior to the old style which
> worked fine for a 1000 years before gcc.
This means throwing away the type information. What we are accessing isn't
a stream of bytes, it is a structured object of defined endianness.
Regards
Oliver
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