> 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
any ABI that actually does this ? Actually it wouldn't make sense for
an ABI to pad
struct { u16 x; u16 y; } but not pad u16 a[2]; As sizeof(a) == 2 * sizeof(u16)
in the latter case, sizeof(u16) would be != 2 ...
So, going from there, would it ever make sense for an ABI to pad
struct { u8 a; u8 b; u16 c; } ?
> __attribute__(packed) to allow you to work around this.
^ ^
YM __attribute__((packed)). And I still claim that isn't actually required
on any architecture, and just adds unnecessary gcc-specificness.
Philipp
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