Subject: Re: bit fields && data tearing

From: Jakub Jelinek <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 14:29:01 +0200

On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 08:24:12AM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:
> And I just confirmed with the Alpha cross-compiler that the fields are
> not 'padded out' if volatile either.

They can't be, struct layout is part of the ABI.
Guess you can introduce say atomic_bool and similar typedefs which would be
bool or char on most arches and on alpha int.

	Jakub