Re: [PATCH] isa_{read,write}{w,l} fixed

[Jamie Lokier]

[e-mail] wrote:
> Alas, you can't.  If accessing quantities of type short is exceptionally
> slow, then it may well be that the ABI decress Thou Shalt Pad.  gcc has
> __attribute__(packed) to allow you to work around this.

Correct, though I don't know of any such ABIs.

> Just do as the plan9'ers do and represent all externally visible data
> as an array of unsigned chars.  It's difficult to get that wrong.

That's broken as we're talking about I/O accesses...

enjoy,
-- Jamie