Re: PATCH: usb: descriptor structures have to be packed
Alan Stern <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.usb.devel |
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On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Sergei Organov wrote: > IMHO aligned(N) should be used in portable code only to *increase* > alignment (this effectively excludes usage of 'packed'), and then the > alignment won't affect the low-level operations, that automatically > answers your question. Simple? If you don't consider the alignment attribute to be part of the type, then you can indeed express "16-bit-little-endian-unsigned-integer-unaligned" as a C type. In fact __le16 expresses it perfectly all except for the "unaligned" part, which you agree doesn't belong in the type. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel