[PATCH] fix KJS crash on some more strict platforms

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at kdemail.net
Fri Dec 19 02:59:12 GMT 2003


Helge Deller wrote:
>This code is at least not very portable.
>At the first glance it should work, _as_ _long_ as you ensure
>that "Data" is align on a 8 byte (because of P64Bit) boundary.
>Right now it's aligned anywhere, where the compiler puts it.

If you want to force the compiler to disrespect alignment and be able to read 
from any boundary, use bitfields and packed (__attribute__((packed)) ) 
structures.

I don't know what the size limit is in a bitfield. __attribute__ is, of 
course, a GCC extension.

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