[PATCH] Fix struct stat* (was Re: attribute(packed) in struct stat is wrong)

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Thu Feb 7 20:53:00 GMT 2002


Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> writes:

> 2002-02-07  Jakub Jelinek  <jakub@redhat.com>
> 
> 	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/stat.h (struct stat): Remove packed
> 	attribute, change __pad{1,2} type to unsigned int.
> 	(struct stat64): Remove packed attribute.

Well, this is better.  I don't know why I haven't seen any problem
yesterday but I've seen them today.  And your patch fixes the test
suite problems.

Which is not handled is using stat64 with -malign-double.  And I doubt
it can be handled.

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