Re: [Tinycc-devel] Bug Report (offset+cast)

[Rob Landley]

On Friday 11 May 2007 3:01 pm, Dave Dodge wrote:
> Aside: from a purely C standpoint the memcpy() solution isn't actually
> guaranteed to work either, thanks to C99's concept of padding bits.  I
> don't know of any real hardware where it would actually break, though,
> and if such a system does exist it's almost certainly some weird
> DSP/ASIC where if you're writing code for it you already know about
> these issues.

What are "padding bits"?

I strongly suspect this isn't something Linux has to worry about...

Rob