Luck, Tony wrote:
> That is true, but here's the definition of the io_event strcuture:
>
> struct io_event {
> __u64 data;
> __u64 obj;
> __s64 res;
> __s64 res2;
> };
>
> In the words of the comment, C may be "fun", but I've
> having trouble envisioning an architecture where a structure
> that consists of four equal sized objects has some padding!
<newbie>
There might be some architecture that requires 16 byte alignment...
how about surrounding the memcpy with if (sizeof(struct io_event) != 4 * sizeof(__u64)) ?
</newbie>
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