[libdvdnav-devel] By The Way...

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 01:46:40 +0000, Timothy Gu wrote:

> On Sat Jan 17 2015 at 4:03:48 PM Lawrence D'Oliveiro <
> ldo at geek-central.gen.nz> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 22:36:18 -0800, Timothy Gu wrote:
>>
>>> gcc_struct is a no-op on Linux, but it changes the ABI to use on
>>> Windows.
>>
>> OK, so how come clang works correctly without recognizing it?
>>
> 
> I was referring to GCC. Clang just ignores the attribute it doesn't
> recognize and throws the warning. On Linux again this doesn't matter.
> On Windows it does, but might not be visible to the tester.

I was assuming that the layout of the structures did matter for the
correct operation of libdvdread. If they don’t, then we needn’t bother
getting the packing right at all.