From de3d7827ce13a52b1bcf3b72e9dc2ee89152dea6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Bert=20M=C3=BCnnich?= Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 20:15:35 +0200 Subject: Compiler independent buffer alignment --- autoreload_inotify.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/autoreload_inotify.c b/autoreload_inotify.c index a7378f6..473b8cb 100644 --- a/autoreload_inotify.c +++ b/autoreload_inotify.c @@ -56,22 +56,26 @@ static void arl_setup_dir(arl_t *arl, const char *filepath) free(dntmp); } +union { + char d[4096]; /* aligned buffer */ + struct inotify_event e; +} buf; + bool arl_handle(arl_t *arl, const char *filepath) { bool reload = false; - char buf[4096] __attribute__ ((aligned(__alignof__(struct inotify_event)))); char *ptr; const struct inotify_event *event; for (;;) { - ssize_t len = read(arl->fd, buf, sizeof(buf)); + ssize_t len = read(arl->fd, buf.d, sizeof(buf.d)); if (len == -1) { if (errno == EINTR) continue; break; } - for (ptr = buf; ptr < buf + len; ptr += sizeof(*event) + event->len) { + for (ptr = buf.d; ptr < buf.d + len; ptr += sizeof(*event) + event->len) { event = (const struct inotify_event*) ptr; /* events from watching the file itself */ -- cgit v1.2.3