Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Subject | Re: Subtleties of __attribute__((packed)) | Date | Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:30:19 +0100 |
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Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> writes:
> Once again: I refered to "packed attribute on the struct vs. packed attribute > on each member of the struct". The alignment shouldn't be different.
You are mistaken. The alignment of a non-packed structure can be greater than the maximum alignment of the containing members.
Andreas.
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