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From: Tim Hollebeek <tim@hollebeek.com>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>,
	Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	"gdr@integrable-solutions.net" <gdr@integrable-solutions.net>,
	"gcc@gcc.gnu.org" <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: C ABI: struct/union inconsistency
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 10:38:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020928100655.A10847@hollebeek.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020928014605.GA29853@redhat.com>

On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 06:46:05PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 06:11:37PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> > >How about "invisible", we're making the zero sized members
> > >invisible :-)
> > 
> > That's cute.
> 
> Cute, but not very descriptive.  allow_zero_size?

Don't we already have (or recently discuss) an attribute to eliminate
tail padding?  Shouldn't that get used here?

sizeof(struct __attribute__(no_tail_padding) { } ) == 0

seems intuitive to me.

-Tim

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-28 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-27  8:59 Mark Mitchell
2002-09-27  9:33 ` Joseph S. Myers
2002-09-27 10:09 ` Richard Henderson
2002-09-27 10:31   ` Mark Mitchell
2002-09-27 11:41     ` Richard Henderson
2002-09-27 11:54       ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2002-09-27 13:44         ` Mark Mitchell
2002-09-27 15:11           ` Richard Henderson
2002-09-27 15:18             ` Mark Mitchell
2002-09-27 16:26               ` Richard Henderson
2002-09-27 17:53                 ` Mark Mitchell
2002-09-27 18:51                   ` David S. Miller
2002-09-27 19:01                     ` Mark Mitchell
2002-09-27 19:54                       ` Richard Henderson
2002-09-28 10:38                         ` Tim Hollebeek [this message]
2002-09-28 12:56                           ` Mark Mitchell
2002-09-28 13:00                             ` Richard Henderson
2002-09-28 13:52                               ` Mark Mitchell
2002-09-30  9:20                                 ` Gabriel Paubert
2002-09-30 10:22                                   ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2002-09-28 16:55                               ` Per Bothner
2002-09-29  2:40                                 ` Tim Hollebeek
2002-09-27 20:02                       ` Michael S. Zick
2002-09-28  9:01                       ` Fergus Henderson
2002-09-27 20:43                     ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2002-09-28 16:55                     ` Alexandre Oliva
2002-09-28  7:02 Robert Dewar

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