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    SubjectRe: drivers/block/ub.c
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    On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 03:22:08PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
    > On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:18:57 -0400
    > Scott Wood <scott@timesys.com> wrote:
    > > As long as bar is not packed, why shouldn't the beginning of bar.b be
    > > aligned?
    >
    > No! bar.b starts at offset 1 byte. That's how this stuff works.

    That may be how it does work, but why is that how it *should* work?
    If I want bar packed, I'll specify it as packed. There's no reason
    to keep this behavior with a nopadding attribute, as it would be a
    new attribute with no existing code to break.

    The important thing is that the offsets within the packed/nopadding
    struct are exactly as specified, and padding the first element
    doesn't change that.

    -Scott
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