Re: sizeof problem in kernel modules

[Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>]

Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> said:
> One more tidbit: ISO/IEC 9899:1990 3.14
> 
>   3.14 object: A region of data storage in the execution environment,
>     the contents of which can represent values.  Except for
>     bit-fields, objects are composed of contiguous sequences of one or
>     more bytes, the number, order and encoding of which are either
>     explicitely specified or implementation-defined.
> 
> This would specifically prohibit separating any part of a structure
> from the rest.

It just prohibits separating bytes, not subobjects. I.e., everything can be
handled as an array of bytes (of the appropiate length, as given by
sizeof())
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