RE: [lwip-users] IP Address Display Functions

[Bill Auerbach]

>> Why can't we have a single "packed" attribute at the end of the struct
>>instead of using it each time at the field level?
>
>Different compilers have different syntaxes for declaring packing. That
>is why we have the PACK_STRUCT_STRUCT and PACK_STRUCT_FIELD macros.

Also, I see a *huge* difference in performance with packing by 2 versus 1
which we do in many if not all ports.

AFAIK (and from running for 4 months this way), packing by 2 is sufficient.
It allows a compiler to do word loads instead of 2 byte loads forming the
words when it thinks an alignment issue might exist.  I use UDP and TCP in
RAW mode so I cannot comment on whether this change would be universal or
not.  As packing is done for headers, I see no case where word alignment
isn't sufficient - our macros handle the byte field of headers explicitly.

Bill