RFC: attribute "unpadded"

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:

| However, it is the one extension that will naturally express the thing
| that the C++ ABI does; that ABI creates types whose sizes are not multiples
| of their alignments by ignoring tail padding.

I'm pretty sure similar arguments can be constructed for extensions that
were deemed not "appropriate" and removed :-)

| Here is what I am going to do at this point: implement the extension,
| and use it for myself.  I will check it in after GCC 3.3 branches --
| unless a maintainer asks me not to do so.

Aha, I now see the benefits of having global write privs. 1/2 ;-)

-- Gaby