willy@thepuffingroup.com wrote:
> Alas, you can't. If accessing quantities of type short is exceptionally
> slow, then it may well be that the ABI decress Thou Shalt Pad. gcc has
> __attribute__(packed) to allow you to work around this.
Correct, though I don't know of any such ABIs.
> Just do as the plan9'ers do and represent all externally visible data
> as an array of unsigned chars. It's difficult to get that wrong.
That's broken as we're talking about I/O accesses...
enjoy,
-- Jamie
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