Re: [Patch 04/18] include/linux/logfs.h

[Andreas Schwab]

David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Won't a simple struct { uint16_t } get padded to a size of 4 bytes on
> ARM? Even if I'm misremembering that, I certainly can't guarantee that
> such a thing will _never_ happen on any newly-invented ABI. If you had
> 'nopadding' instead of 'packed', then there's no need to emit code to
> handle unaligned loads.

You can add aligned(N) to increase the alignment again.

Andreas.

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