Re: [lwip-users] Struct packing/alignment problems

[K.J. Mansley]

On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 11:47, Jani Monoses wrote:
> > That's alot of work you have done there.
> > A decent solution to this alignment problem is really needed, because as 
> > it is now, lwip is incompatible with most 32bit embedded CPUs.(!!) (Such 
> > as ARM, TI DSPs, ...)
> 
> more correctly incompatible with some compilers. lwip works fine on ARM using 
> gcc.

Quite.  I wonder if the effort to get lwip to work with the compilers
that currently have problems could be better spent getting the compilers
to work with packed structs!  I doubt this is feasible though, so we are
going to have to address this recurrent problem sooner or later.

Kieran