On Wed, Apr 3, 2024, at 12:09, Anton Protopopov wrote:
On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 11:57 AM Anton Protopopov aspsk@isovalent.com wrote:
end.
Yeah, I am sending a patch for this right now. Better not to depend on compiler options
One __packed__ was not enough though. The problem was also with the union of two __u16's which is padded to be 32 bits when AEABI=n and the whole structure is packed (so total size is 66 in this case).
The __packed attribute is easy to misunderstand, in this case you would need to mark every internal union and struct as well, since you otherwise run into one or both of these problems:
- an inner aggregate with explicit packing still requires 32-bit alignment (and padding) for each member, even if the outer struct puts it at an unaligned position
- You get a compiler warning if an internal structure is follows the normal alignment constraints but is located at an unaligned offset, since that violates the alignment constraints of the C standard.
Arnd