James E Wilson dixit: >Currently, -fpack-struct is defined >to have the same effect as attribute ((packed)) for all structures, >which in turn is equivalent to #pragma pack(1) for all structures.
Let me please add a feature request here. gcc warns if it cannot pack structs since they're already in a more or less optimal form. When you're using headers for structures e.g. used for PXE, you've got to pack them since the data comes from the BIOS. Using __attribute__((packed)) on these structures will then give you a warning on i386 (and maybe none on amd64, but I have not checked that). When you're building with -Werror, that plainly sucks. Luckily, my gcc 3.4.4 seems to not warn if I use #pragma pack; that's all I request to be retained. bye, //mirabile -- > [...] Echtzeit hat weniger mit "Speed"[...] zu tun, sondern damit, daß der > richtige Prozeß voraussagbar rechtzeitig sein Zeitscheibchen bekommt. Wir haben uns[...] geeinigt, dass das verwendete Echtzeit-Betriebssystem[...] weil selbst einfachste Operationen *echt* *Zeit* brauchen. (aus d.a.s.r)
