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

[Leon Woestenberg]

Hello all,

K.J. Mansley wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 12:49, Chris Jones wrote:

> The word is the size of the data bus, and sounds like these platforms
> have bytes and words defined to be the same size.  They still have byte
> addressing, but the byte is not 8 bits.  As a byte is the smallest

Byte means "by eight" and think is 8 bits by definition.

A word is the data bus width, like you said.

Now, if people start using words (pun intended) the wrong way, things
go wrong. Oh, wait, they already did :-)

Grumble,

Leon.