[PATCH 00/83] move alignment attribute on types

[David Marchand]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 4:56 PM Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 08:36:53AM -0700, Tyler Retzlaff wrote:
> > The current location used for __rte_aligned(a) for alignment of types
> > and variables is not compatible with MSVC. There is only a single
> > location accepted by both toolchains.
> >
> > After having established this as the conventional standard for lib/*
> > this series is intended to convert the remainder of the source tree to
> > use the same location for __rte_aligned(a) and alignas(a) for
> > consistency.
> >
> No objection to this change. Is there a checkpatch rule available to
> enforce this going forward or how can we avoid future introduction of
> macros in the wrong place?

We added one in v24.03, it is not perfect, but it should help catch most.
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/devtools?id=c6552d9a8deffa448de2d5e2e726f50508c1efd2


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David Marchand