Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:37:05 +0100 (CET)
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
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       Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Fix b43 driver build for arm
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On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Michael Buesch wrote:
> Still I can't see why this structure will cause alignment issues, as the
> compiler will pad it up to the right boundary automagically, as you said
> above. Why doesn't the ARM compiler do this?

The ARM compiler handles it correctly.

But the ugly hacks to get useful information about the module device
table using the _host_ compiler fail.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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