Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] A generic boolean | Date | Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:16:30 +0200 |
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Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> writes:
> We know that today long is the only one that differs and that > m68k has horrible natural alignment rules for historical reasons, but > besides that it's pretty sane.
Try determining the alignment of u64 on i386. You will be surprised.
#include <stdio.h>
typedef long long u64; struct u64_s { u64 x; } x;
int main () { printf ("%d\n", __alignof__ (u64)); printf ("%d\n", __alignof__ (x)); return 0; }
Btw, the iptables compat code was broken due to this.
Andreas.
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