On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
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> > Why do you need __packed__ here? With or without it the layout is the

From just being paranoid.

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> Indeed. And on some architectures 'packed' will actually mean that the 
> compiler may think that it's unaligned, and then generate much worse code 
> to access the fields. So if you align things anyway (and you do), then 
> 'packed' is the wrong thing to do.

OK, I'm making v6 now with various cleanups. I'll nuke it on that one.

-- Steve

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