Re: [lwip-users] Problem With dns.c Using 32-Bit Compilers

[Jonathan Larmour]

address@hidden wrote:
> Jonathan Larmour wrote:
>>
>> One workaround may be to dispense with the uses of sizeof for those DNS
>> records in that file, and replace them with e.g.
>> #define SIZEOF_DNS_ANSWER 10
>> and use that instead. The format and size is fixed after all.
>>
>>   
> Wouldn't that be working around a bug in a compiler (that doesn't
> support structure packing) which we agreed not to do?

>From what he said, it does support structure packing, but still includes
padding for alignment at the end.

I agree that no structure packing at all would not be worth attempting to
support.

Jifl
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