On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 10:15:43AM -0500, Frediano Ziglio wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 02:14:24PM +0000, Frediano Ziglio wrote: > > > The SpiceStat structure can be 20 or 24 bytes depending on alignment. > > > Being a memory mapped structure potentially used with lockless access > > > is not good to have it unaligned. > > > The current tool that reads this memory mapped file (reds_stats) is > > > able to detect if the structure is either 20 or 24 bytes and act > > > according so changing this structure won't affect the behaviour > > > (unless you have an old tool but as they are usually packages together > > > is quite improbable).
spice/stats.h is however a public header shipped by the spice-protocol package, we cannot really assume that the only user of the SpiceStat structure is reds_stats. Christophe
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