From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Subject: Re: __packed vs. __attribute__((packed)) in kernel headers
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:57:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1308848277.6688.7.camel@Joe-Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110623150209.GA12413@x4.trippels.de>
On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 17:02 +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> On 2011.06.23 at 09:42 -0400, Nick Bowler wrote:
> > On 2011-06-22 08:34 +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> > > One possible solution would be to let the "scripts/headers_install.pl"
> > > script automatically substitute __packed with __attribute__((packed)):
> > >
> > > diff --git a/scripts/headers_install.pl b/scripts/headers_install.pl
[]
> I'm not an expert of Perl regular expressions, but maybe this:
> $line =~ s/\s__packed;$/ __attribute__((packed));/g
> is a little bit closer to the intention?
Maybe:
s/\b__packed\b/__attribute__((packed))/g
though this argues against redefining
gcc __attributes__ in the first place.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-23 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-22 6:34 Markus Trippelsdorf
2011-06-23 13:42 ` Nick Bowler
2011-06-23 15:02 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2011-06-23 16:57 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2011-06-24 13:07 ` Michal Marek
2011-06-24 13:51 ` {PATCH] fix __packed in exported " Markus Trippelsdorf
2011-06-24 15:17 ` Michal Marek
2011-06-24 16:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-24 17:00 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-06-30 18:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-30 18:48 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-06-30 18:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-30 18:58 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-06-30 19:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-30 19:13 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-06-30 20:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-30 21:56 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-06-24 17:01 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2011-06-23 17:04 ` __packed vs. __attribute__((packed)) in " richard -rw- weinberger
2011-06-23 17:46 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2011-06-23 17:54 ` Mike Frysinger
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