On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 10:04:32 -0500 (EST) 
 Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com> wrote:

 > Hmmm... I wonder if __attribute__((packed)) will do what you want.  Not that
 > it's a good solution, by any means... it's probably going to hit performance
 > in a big way.  The correct solution is, of course, to align *everything* -
 > especially if you ever want to see USB on a sparc-line box via a PCI-to-USB
 > interface or somesuch.

Packing the structure is one thing.  If there are members in the descriptor
which are not naturally aligned, you're going to lose.

Probably the best idea here is to take the incoming descriptors and convert
them into some chained software representation.

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