Re: [PATCH] isa_{read,write}{w,l} fixed

From: Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Date: Sat Feb 12 2000 - 09:22:44 EST

Philipp Rumpf <prumpf@inwestnet.de> said:

[...]

> I'm pretty sure it's a reasonably safe assumption gcc doesn't reorder members
> of structs as long as they are naturally aligned - otherwise I assume structs
> used for DMA would need to be fixed, too ?

gcc doesn't reorder structure members, the relevant standards require them
to be laid out in the order given. But it may add any padding it wants. And
that depends on the CPU/architecture, and might even depend on optimization
level and CPU family. 

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