Re: [PATCH 2/3] add open iscsi netlink interface to iscsi transport class

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 21:39 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ???? <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In article <42798AC1.2010308@xxxxxxxxxxx> (at Wed, 04 May 2005 19:53:53 
> > -0700), Mike Christie <michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx> says:
> > 
> >> +struct iscsi_uevent {
> > :
> >> +} __attribute__ ((aligned (sizeof(unsigned long))));
> > 
> > I think it'd be better to use sizeof(uint64_t) or something.
> 
> Is there a benefit in aligning on 64-bit boundaries for 32-bit platforms?


why align at all as opposed to just letting the compiler figure it out.