From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11674 invoked by alias); 31 Jan 2002 17:44:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 11590 invoked from network); 31 Jan 2002 17:44:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bunker.fullplaymedia.com) (63.165.188.8) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 31 Jan 2002 17:44:04 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: mips structure padding Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 12:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: From: "Todd Malsbary" To: "Fergus Henderson" Cc: X-SW-Source: 2002-01/txt/msg01993.txt.bz2 > From: Fergus Henderson [mailto:fjh@cs.mu.oz.au] > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 2:49 AM > To: Todd Malsbary > Cc: Eric Christopher; gcc@gcc.gnu.org > Subject: Re: mips structure padding >=20 > Do you mean that you think it is a bug that the sizes differ? yes, the size difference is the part that's puzzling me. > The answer to that is no, it is not a bug, it is a feature. >=20 > Here's a simplified example. the example makes perfect sense. the part that still confuses me is that i found this problem in the ecos sources which are compiled for a variety of targets with gcc so i assumed that the sizes are the same on all the different targets they've used and the size difference is just showing up with the target i'm using. anyway, thanks to all the people who helped me out with this. Todd =20