>>>>> "Philipp" == Philipp Rumpf <prumpf@inwestnet.de> writes:
>> Philipp's point is still valid though, u32 is only 2 byte aligned
>> on
Philipp> Alan's point. My point was you could rely on gcc not padding
Philipp> structures when you always explicitly padded to natural
Philipp> alignment boundaries. Eg when you do struct { u16 s; u32 l;
Philipp> } you deserve to get burned, but when you do struct { u16 s;
Philipp> u16 unused; u32 l; } you can expect gcc not to be smart on
Philipp> you.
Right, should have read your posting properly.
Jes
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