From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753251AbaB0QxZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:53:25 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:57375 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751114AbaB0QxW (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:53:22 -0500 Message-ID: <530F6D43.5020006@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 08:52:19 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Carpenter CC: "Theodore Ts'o" , Borislav Petkov , Joe Perches , Ben Pfaff , Christopher Li , Josh Triplett , linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , James Hogan Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] sparse: Allow override of sizeof(bool) warning References: <20140227022857.GC23659@thin> <1393469594.24588.71.camel@joe-AO722> <20140227025845.GA25145@thin> <530EB103.5070406@zytor.com> <1393472326.24588.82.camel@joe-AO722> <60797a1a-1a83-468e-9629-abf4e8712d65@email.android.com> <20140227082529.GA18210@pd.tnic> <20140227152435.GA7982@thunk.org> <530F5E53.5070208@zytor.com> <20140227161004.GT26722@mwanda> In-Reply-To: <20140227161004.GT26722@mwanda> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/27/2014 08:10 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > That last assumption has to change for the Meta architecture. > > https://lwn.net/Articles/522188/ > > On meta, the structs and unions are padded to 4 bytes unless they are > explicitly marked as __packed. > One have to wonder how likely they are to have that not continually break... -hpa