From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Cc: Phil Endecott <phil_arcwk_endecott@chezphil.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Subtleties of __attribute__((packed))
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Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:30:19 +0100
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Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> writes:

> Once again: I refered to "packed attribute on the struct vs. packed attribute
> on each member of the struct". The alignment shouldn't be different.

You are mistaken.  The alignment of a non-packed structure can be greater
than the maximum alignment of the containing members.

Andreas.

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