Re: [Xen-devel] xen vbd: better.

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> it's interesting to see the very different thoughts in the Plan 9
> community (Ken included) about this issue. Basic feeling over there is
> that putting packed structs into the compiler is a terrible idea, not
> needed, it's deprecated, and should never be used. That's my polite
> translation :-)
> 
> Plan 9 works just fine without packed structs, as do the many operating 
> systems written by people using compilers that didn't do packed structs 
> either, or even compilers that always packed structs (V6  C). All these 
> systems twiddled bits just fine. 

I'm interested to know how. How do you define a network header layout,
for example, and how do you access subfields? e.g., is there an
explicit IDL with integration into the compiler?

 -- Keir


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