Re: [iPAQ] GCC compile issues with armv4l - offtopic?

From: George France <france.a.t.handhelds.org>
Date: Fri Jul 26 2002 - 14:36:26 EDT

Hello Bob,

You are on topic. :-)

On Friday 26 July 2002 10:57, bob lees wrote:
>
> [snip].....
>
> Under the x86 compiler recsize reports as 10 and under the arm xcompiler as
> 12, which as you can imagine causes some downstream whoopsies!

Twelve (12) is correct. The ARM Linux compilers round the size of structures
to a multiple of 4 bytes and always aligns structures to a multiple of 4
bytes so that the load and store multiple word instructions (ldm and
stm) can be used instead of a call to memcopy.

Best Regards,

--George
Received on Fri Jul 26 18:36:27 2002

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