>Just for the record (in case someone else has the same thoughts) >and because I'd already written most of the reply, I also >replied to your first email. See last for your follow-up. > >> What has the alignment of type 'long long' to do with structure >> packing? > >Only the obvious(?): if long long is usually padded in a >structure, then marking it with attribute-packed has effect. >IIUC for netware, you pack everything in structures *except* >long long, which you pad to 32-bit alignment. Right? If not, >then the warning emission machinery is wrong.
For NetWare, everything gets packed, including 'long long'. That's why I stumbled across the problem, as the test case (actually there's a second, similar one) failed because of broken warning emission. Thanks, Jan
