linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] [usb/host]: use get/put_unaligned_* helpers to fix more potential unaligned issues.

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Date:	Thu, 15 May 2008 15:27:53 +0200
From:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
To:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
Cc:	"Bryan Wu" <cooloney@...nel.org>,
	"Jie Zhang" <jie.zhang@...log.com>, harvey.harrison@...il.com,
	greg@...ah.com, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] [usb/host]: use get/put_unaligned_* helpers to fix more potential unaligned issues.

Am Donnerstag 15 Mai 2008 15:03:20 schrieben Sie:
> On Thursday 15 May 2008, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > This is not very nice. If we pass around unaligned pointers we should mark
> > those not catch errors later on.
> 
> ISTR that GCC doesn't have a way to annotate pointers that way.

But we can do the _user annotation, can't we?

	Regards
		Oliver
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