[ECOS] Re: pragma pack

[Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>]

On 2008-01-09, Paul D. DeRocco <pderocco@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> From: Bronislav Gabrhelik
>> 
>> Beware of bad alignment of timestamp field. Some processors 
>> might raise an exception/interrupt when you use the int like 
>> operation directly on field (including assignment & 
>> evaluation). You should copy out/in this by memcpy into/from 
>> temporary variable of the same type when you need to do some 
>> integer computing on this field. In other case your code 
>> might not be portable.
>
> I think that's the point of the __packed__ attribute: it
> forces the compiler for any machine on which it matters to do
> the necessary byte packing/unpacking automagically. I know
> that's what the Gnu ARM compiler does.

The trap snaps shut when you take the address of a field in a
packed struct and pass that to somebody who's expecting a
pointer to a normally aligned value.

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