On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Lennart Augustsson wrote:

: Well, Jason, this probably explains why USB doesn't work on the
: Alpha.  There are lots of USB descriptors structs that I don't
: align because that's how the device delivers them (i.e. as one
: big chunk of descriptors, all concatenated).  I'll have to figure
: out what the nicest way to handle it is.

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.

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