Hi Richard and Peter,

On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> #prgama pack(1) means that this structure can appear at *any* address
> (that's part of the definition of a packed structure).  That includes odd
> addresses, so the code must be compiled as a set of byte loads and the
> final word built up from the bits.  I'm not sure why linux is doing
> differently, but it may well be a bug if it is.

ARM AFAIK suggest loading two words in two registers and then shift them
correctly; this is much faster on high I/B cycle machines i guess !

> Possibly, but it won't change anything, since the code generated is
> correct for the supplied input.

Thats right... maybe there is a small addition in the Lunix variant that
checks at compile time if the structure should be aligned and then changes
it ?

Better try it with the new compiler Ben has been working on i guess...

Cheers,
Reinoud