Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Feb 2000 00:33:30 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] isa_{read,write}{w,l} fixed |
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willy@thepuffingroup.com wrote: > 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 > __attribute__(packed) to allow you to work around this.
Correct, though I don't know of any such ABIs.
> Just do as the plan9'ers do and represent all externally visible data > as an array of unsigned chars. It's difficult to get that wrong.
That's broken as we're talking about I/O accesses...
enjoy, -- Jamie
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