[SR-Dev] Config framework error for tm module

[Andrei Pelinescu-Onciul]

On May 21, 2009 at 18:20, Miklos Tirpak <miklos at iptel.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this is strange because the cfg framework says that the offset between 
> cfg_group_tm.tm_auto_inv_100_r and cfg_group_tm.tm_unix_tx_timeout is 4, 
> but I think sizeof(char *) should be 8 on 64bits, so the offset should 
> be at least 8. (cfg.c:81)

Yes, it should be 8.
> 
> Andrei, do you have any hint?

I've looked at it on a 64 bits system and I found a problem: the sanity
check compares the computed size directly with sizeof(struct). However
the structure will be padded if its size is not a multiple of the size
of the type of its member requiring the highest alignment.
In our case the extra char* member on 64 bits caused a 4 bytes padding
and the sanity check failed.
I've already commited the fix to the repository.

Nils gbd output looks very strange, but hopefully we won't need to
investigate further.

Andrei

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