This is the mail archive of the libc-alpha@sourceware.org mailing list for the glibc project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: [PATCH] tftp.h: rework layout to work with fortification


David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:52:30 +0200
>
>> I wonder what's the use of packing here.  There should be no padding,
>> each field has at most short alignment.
>
> I think it's to handle cpus like ARM where a structure containing
> smaller than u32 objects will be aligned up to need u32 alignment.

Then the packing needs to be moved to the inner struct.

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756  01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
"And now for something completely different."


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]