At 2:17 PM -0700 2001/06/15, Scott Johnson (Bellevue) wrote:
> > From: Vital Cruvinel Ferreira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> #pragma options align=packed
>> typedef struct {
>> UInt8 size8 : 8;
>> UInt16 size16 : 16;
>> UInt32 size32 : 32;
>> } T;
>> t.size16 = 5; // runtime error
>
>That will never work. The Dragonball CPU cannot access 16-bit or larger
>integers at an odd address, even though you have ordered the compiler to
>try. If the structure *must* be laid out exactly like that for a good
>reason, then you need to access the bytes of size16 and size32 individually.
>Or you can move size8 to the end of the structure.
No, it's the C compiler's job to generate whatever opcodes are required to support the
packing rule and member sizes of the structure. But that doesn't seem to be happening
in this case, so it's a bug.
Regards,
Jim Schram
Palm Incorporated
Partner Engineering
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