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Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:26:35 +0200 From: Jes Sorensen <jes@....com> To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, ricknu-0@...dent.ltu.se, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] A generic boolean Andreas Schwab wrote: > Jes Sorensen <jes@....com> writes: > >> We know that today long is the only one that differs and that >> m68k has horrible natural alignment rules for historical reasons, but >> besides that it's pretty sane. > > Try determining the alignment of u64 on i386. You will be surprised. If thats the case, then thats really scary :-( I'd claim it's a bug and I am willing to be that iptables isn't the only place that is affected or will be in the future. Would a fix along the lines of this work? typedef long long u64 __attribute__ ((aligned (8)); Cheers, Jes - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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