From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Christopher Nielsen <cnielsen@pobox.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] struct problems
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Date: Tue,  6 May 2003 22:34:11 -0700
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I forgot to add that my guess as to what is happening
is due to alignment issues.

On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 09:36:33PM -0700, Christopher Nielsen wrote:
> I've been working on 48-bit LBA support for ATA, and
> I've run into something peculiar. I decided to rewrite
> the identify array as a struct of bit fields for better
> readability. As it turns out, the struct is 16 bytes
> bigger than expected, which is causing all sorts of
> trouble with accessing the fields properly. I am pretty
> sure I copied all the fields correctly; the struct
> should be 512 bytes, but it's 528 bytes. Below is the
> struct definition for folks to look at. I am in the
> process of rooting out where the extra bytes are
> coming from, but if someone can provide some insight,
> it would save me some time.

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Christopher Nielsen
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