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Subject: Re: [patch] Input cleanups for 2.5.29 [2/2]
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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

|> On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 22:55, Ben Pfaff wrote:
|> > 1    The typedef name intN_t designates a signed integer type with
|> >      width N, no padding bits, and a two's complement
|> >      representation. Thus, int8_t denotes a signed integer type
|> >      with a width of exactly 8 bits.
|> 
|> And arbitary alignment requirements. At least I see nothing in C99
|> saying that
|> 
|> 	uint8_t foo;
|> 	uint8_t bar;
|> 
|> isnt allowed to give you interesting suprises

If it's part of a structure, then yes.  The C standard has always allowed
arbitrary padding between structure members.  It's an ABI issue.

Andreas.

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