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Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:49:47 -0500 (EST) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: torvalds@...ux-foundation.org Cc: thomas@...3r.de, raven@...maw.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 3.3-rc4 From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:45:26 -0800 > However, while true, x86-64 has 8-byte alignment for 'long', and > x86-32 has 4-byte alignment. Which means that even though the > structure layout is exactly the same, on x86-64 the *alignment* issue > will push it out to 304 bytes. > > That's just stupid. We've had that problem before. It's easy to > overlook, but that packet is just mis-designed. A real shame, this should have used "__aligned_u64" from the beginning. -- 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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