[coreboot] [PATCH] Add VIA VT8237S support
Stefan Reinauer
stepan at coresystems.de
Wed Sep 10 22:37:03 CEST 2008
ron minnich wrote:
> not sure where this is, but why are we using packed anyway? it's just
> asking for trouble.
>
Because without packed you can not use structs to describe hardware.
GCC is allowed to change the alignment of struct members at will. And it
does.
Just curious:
Why would you say packed is asking for trouble?
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