Re: [Xen-devel] RFC: 32 bits as smallest atomic size.

[Kurt Garloff <kurt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Keir,

On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 05:07:23PM +0000, Keir Fraser wrote:
> Mostly it's used for structs that are part of the public Xen interface. 
> I don't want different compilers packing fields in different ways.

The layout of (non-packed) structures is defined by the C ABI.
All compilers producing e.g. elf_i386 code should thus use the
same.

Regards,
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