linux-kernel - Re: Early crash

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Message-Id: <20110207.112708.193718501.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:27:08 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dtor@...are.com
Cc:	schwab@...ux-m68k.org, geert@...ux-m68k.org, rusty@...tcorp.com.au,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Early crash

From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...are.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 08:58:29 -0800

> But, theoretically speaking, nothing stops GCC to align pointers with
> "gaps" as well? Let's say having everything (or some) aligned on
> quadword boundary even though arch is 32 bit?

The alignment business only applies to aggregates (ie. structs and
unions).

This has been confirmed via several weeks of expermentation with
different GCC versions on different platforms as well.
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