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Tue Jan 31 03:57:03 CST 2012
"With the new ABI, default structure packing changes, as do some
default data sizes and alignment (which also have a knock-on effect on
structure packing). In particular the minimum size and alignment of a
structure was 4 bytes. Under the EABI there is no minimum and the
alignment is determined by the types of the components it
contains. This will break programs that know too much about the way
structures are packed and can break code that writes binary files by
dumping and reading structures."
"One of the key differences between the traditional GNU/Linux ABI
and the EABI is that 64-bit types (like long long) are aligned
differently. In the traditional ABI, these types had 4-byte alignment;
in the EABI they have 8-byte alignment. As a result, if you use the
same structure definitions (in a header file) and include it in code
used in both the kernel and in application code, you may find that the
structure size and alignment differ."
-- Jamie
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