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

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Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> writes:

>
> Err, but that's not guaranteed to produce what you expect. Although GCC
> (and ANSI compilers) are not allowed to re-order the elements of a
> structure, they are allowed to add padding (unused bytes) between elements
> of the structure. (Yes, we've encountered this before).
>

If I don't miss, the __attribute__((packed)) should "take care" of this, no?

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