svn commit: r195460 - projects/mesh11s/sys/net80211

Bruce Evans brde at optusnet.com.au
Fri Jul 10 04:43:58 UTC 2009


On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, [utf-8] Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

> Bruce Evans <brde at optusnet.com.au> writes:
>> Broken ABIs (e.g., arm?) may add padding at the end of structs,
>
> Padding at the end of a struct is *required* to ensure proper alignment
> of the next element in an array, e.g.

Not for arrays of uint8_t's, which were the subject of discussion.  I
should have written "may add unnatural padding".  unnatural := not
required for alignment of any member in the struct.

Bruce


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