Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL] slirp: Fix issues with -mms-bitfields

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2011-08-25 15:15, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 08/25/2011 04:07 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> On 08/25/2011 08:02 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>> On 08/25/2011 03:38 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> What a mess. Do we really have to go through all 257 packed data
>>>> structs
>>>> >> in QEMU and add these MS compat bits to all potentially affected
>>>> ones?
>>>> > I prefer to detect -mms-bitfields and remove it in configure.
>>>
>>> Can use -mno-ms-bitfields later to override it.
>>
>> No, we can't do that.
>>
>> The reason glib uses -mms-bitfields is that you need to use it in
>> order to call Windows APIs which is does.  We will eventually need to
>> do it anyway.
> 
> I meant, just for our own objects.  As long as there are no glib APIs
> which use bitfields, it should work.
> 
> However, I don't like it either, and prefer the
> __attribute__(((((((gcc_fields)))))) as well.

Could someone with a Windows environment test if that (or (packed,
gcc_fields)?) makes

struct {
        unsigned char a;
        unsigned int b;
};

truly packed again?

Jan

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