From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
> Sent: 21 July 2020 03:55
>
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 03:50:16PM +, David Laight wrote:
> > Several of the structures in linux/uapi/linux/sctp.h are
> > marked __attribute__((packed, aligned(4))).
>
> I don't think we can change that by now. It's bad, yes, but i
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 03:50:16PM +, David Laight wrote:
> Several of the structures in linux/uapi/linux/sctp.h are
> marked __attribute__((packed, aligned(4))).
I don't think we can change that by now. It's bad, yes, but it's
exposed and, well, for a long time (since 2005).
>
> I believe t
Several of the structures in linux/uapi/linux/sctp.h are
marked __attribute__((packed, aligned(4))).
I believe this was done so that the UAPI structure was the
same on both 32 and 64bit systems.
The 'natural' alignment is that of 'u64' - so would differ
between 32 and 64 bit x86 cpus.
There are t
