From: Jeff King Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 18:47:24 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] pack-bitmap: do not use gcc packed attribute Message-ID: <20140805184724.GA10369@peff.net> In-Reply-To: <53DFDCD2.2090803@gmail.com> On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 09:19:46PM +0200, Karsten Blees wrote: > Hmm, I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler to read / write the desired on-disk > structure directly, without copying to a uchar[6] first. Probably. My initial attempt was to keep together the read/write logic about which sizes each item is, but I think the result ended up unnecessarily verbose and harder to follow. > Here's what I came up with (just a sketch, commit message is lacky and the > helper functions deserve a better place / name): I like it. Want to clean it up and submit in place of mine? -Peff