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- David Alan Gilbert wrote:
-
- > Why hasn't this caused problems before for ARM Linux? Earlier versions of GCC
- > didn't happen to have optimisations which excercised the problem. Russ had
- > to do some hacks to the isofs stuff to make it work because.....
- >
- > Structures get padded:
- >
- > struct x {
- > short a;
- > };
- >
- > sizeof(x)=4
- >
- > and thus if you happen to have a datastructure described using collections
- > of small structures you get padding all over the place.
-
- Dunnow if it's of any relevance or not; we hit this with netbsd/arm a
- while ago, and made some compiler changes which are now part of the gcc
- three, but recognised as not being for general use, I think. Could Linux
- not adopt this approach too whih I think would solve any problems? Or
- maybe I'm getting the wrong end of the stick, adn the problems are
- future ones not present ones.
-
- N.
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