On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 08:02:07AM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> It has to generate the 'slow' code because spcifying __packed__ is
> necessary if the entire structure might be misaligned.

I'm not realy sure I understand this sentence (maybe I'm missing some side
effect of the "packed" meaning for gcc).

I think the compiler will generate fast or slow code depending on the resulting
alignment of a structure member - no matter how it got to that memory layout.

Martin