[Box Backup] Workaround for struct packing problem on ARM processors (was: Another wish for 2011)

Leif Linderstam ell2 at live.se
Sat Feb 26 11:12:56 GMT 2011


> just as a note, I have built Box Backup on an ARMv5tel using GCC 4.4.3
> successfully. The server communicates smoothly with a client running on AMD64.
> So this might actually be a problem in Leif's toolchain.
>
> Cheers,
> Felix

Hi Felix,

You are most likely right, but the behaviour might also be different for
different ARM processors, and mine is an ARM 9. See

  http://embdev.net/topic/129073

where at the end Clifford writes about alignment problems he had with different
ARM versions.

Cheers,
Leif

 		 	   		  


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