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SubjectRe: Subtleties of __attribute__((packed))
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Jan Blunck wrote:
> On 12/6/06, Phil Endecott <phil_arcwk_endecott@chezphil.org> wrote:
>> I used to think that this:
>>
>> struct foo {
>> int a __attribute__((packed));
>> char b __attribute__((packed));
>> ... more fields, all packed ...
>> };
>>
>> was exactly the same as this:
>>
>> struct foo {
>> int a;
>> char b;
>> ... more fields ...
>> } __attribute__((packed));
>>
>> but it is not, in a subtle way.
>>
>
> The same code is generated. [...]

I don't think so. Example:

struct test {
int a __attribute__((packed));
int b __attribute__((packed));
};

char c = 1;
struct test t = { .a=2, .b=3 };

$ arm-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -S -W -Wall test1.c

.file "test2.c"
.global c
.data
.type c, %object
.size c, 1
c:
.byte 1
.global t
.align 2 <<<<<<<<===== t is aligned
.type t, %object
.size t, 8
t:
.word 2
.word 3
.ident "GCC: (GNU) 4.1.2 20061028 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-19)"


Compare with:

struct test {
int a;
int b;
} __attribute__((packed));

char c = 1;
struct test t = { .a=2, .b=3 };

$ arm-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -S -W -Wall test2.c

.file "test1.c"
.global c
.data
.type c, %object
.size c, 1
c:
.byte 1
.global t <<<<<< "align" has gone, t is unaligned
.type t, %object
.size t, 8
t:
.4byte 2
.4byte 3
.ident "GCC: (GNU) 4.1.2 20061028 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-19)"



Phil.





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