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Am Sonntag, 27. Juni 2004 01:20 schrieb David S. Miller:
> A ten-fold increase in code size just to access any member
> of the structure.
>
> I think you have no idea how astronomically inefficient the code is
> which gets generated when you add the packed attribute to a structure.

Are you saying that gcc will generate other code with packed even if
packed does not change the layout of the structure in question?

Regards
Oliver

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