linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tcp: fix tcp_fastopen unaligned access complaints on sparc

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Date:   Thu, 12 Jan 2017 16:47:31 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:     shannon.nelson@...cle.com, rob.gardner@...cle.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: fix tcp_fastopen unaligned access complaints on
 sparc

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 13:36:30 -0800

> val should be an union, so that proper alignment is enforced by one
> member.

Sure, annotating the type so that it is aligned correctly makes
sense.