Re: [Xen-devel] RFC: 32 bits as smallest atomic size.

[Keir F. <Kei...@cl...>]

On 27 Mar 2005, at 00:27, David Hopwood wrote:

> Keir Fraser wrote:
>> On 26 Mar 2005, at 17:31, Jimi Xenidis wrote:
>>>>> Few things to note:
>>>>> 1) packed is [un]necessary since the ABI will do the right thing
>> I prefer to pack things explicitly rather than rely on ABI padding.
>
> If you use -Wpadded when compiling with gcc then you're not relying on
> ABI padding; you're automatically checking that it is not used. That
> would seem to be precisely what is required here.

If I could specify it on a per-struct basis then it would be perfect. 
But I do want the normal padding rules to be applied for non-public 
struct definitions.

  -- Keir