On 9 Jul 2009, at 09:31, Rui Paulo wrote:
> On 8 Jul 2009, at 19:30, Bruce Evans wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Rui Paulo wrote:
>>
>>> Log:
>>> Revert 195460: gcc does evil things without __packed.
>>
>> Oops, I asked if __packed was really spurious before seeing this.
>>
>> gcc does evil things with __packed (starting with it not being a
>> syntax
>> error).
>>
>> Did it only break on arm?
>
> I didn't have a chance to try other architectures. But possibly, yes.
> For example, sizeof(meshconf_ie) is 23 but, on arm and without
> __packed, it gave me 26 IIRC.
Actually, sizeof(meshconf_ie) should be 25, but on arm
sizeof(meshconf_ie) == 28 (next multiple of 4).
We then decrement 2 from the sizeof in the code, so this gives 26 (the
correct answer would be 23, of course).
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Rui Paulo