Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] isa_{read,write}{w,l} fixed | Date | Fri, 11 Feb 2000 18:55:28 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> I'm pretty sure it's a reasonably safe assumption gcc doesn't reorder members > of structs as long as they are naturally aligned - otherwise I assume structs > used for DMA would need to be fixed, too ?
Structure padding is arch specific. For example u16 is 2 byte aligned on m68k 4 byte aligned on x86 and god knows how its aligned on an S/390
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