Re: Improving the data supplied by BPF

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 12:39:42PM -0600, David Young wrote:
> I don't think that you can force space-optimal packing by re-ordering
> members, can you?  AFAIK, no standard forbids the compiler from
> padding this struct,

The standard doesn't, but any sane ABI will. I don't think we should
really bother with theoritical compilers or the mistakes of the ancient
past. The only mildly insane ABI left is ARM with the explicit struct
alignment rules.

Joerg