Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753758AbaB0RXP (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Feb 2014 12:23:15 -0500 Received: from mailapp01.imgtec.com ([195.89.28.114]:39661 "EHLO mailapp01.imgtec.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753734AbaB0RXM (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Feb 2014 12:23:12 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1027 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 12:23:12 EST Message-ID: <530F707A.8060603@imgtec.com> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:06:02 +0000 From: James Hogan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: Dan Carpenter , "Theodore Ts'o" , Borislav Petkov , Joe Perches , Ben Pfaff , Christopher Li , Josh Triplett , , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] sparse: Allow override of sizeof(bool) warning References: <20140227022857.GC23659@thin> <1393469594.24588.71.camel@joe-AO722> <20140227025845.GA25145@thin> <530EB103.5070406@zytor.com> <1393472326.24588.82.camel@joe-AO722> <60797a1a-1a83-468e-9629-abf4e8712d65@email.android.com> <20140227082529.GA18210@pd.tnic> <20140227152435.GA7982@thunk.org> <530F5E53.5070208@zytor.com> <20140227161004.GT26722@mwanda> <530F6D43.5020006@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <530F6D43.5020006@zytor.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [192.168.154.65] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 27/02/14 16:52, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 02/27/2014 08:10 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote: >> >> That last assumption has to change for the Meta architecture. >> >> https://lwn.net/Articles/522188/ >> >> On meta, the structs and unions are padded to 4 bytes unless they are >> explicitly marked as __packed. >> > > One have to wonder how likely they are to have that not continually break... Well it's only when it deals with stored/portable data formats that it's an issue, and in those cases some amount of care over packing has usually already been taken. It most often causes problems when one small struct/union containing only chars or shorts is nested inside another struct which is marked as packed (on the unfortunately mistaken assumption that the inner struct cannot have padding at the end so doesn't need packing itself). But yeh, it is a PITA. Cheers James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/