alignment faults in 3.6
Russell King - ARM Linux
linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Fri Oct 5 18:42:35 EDT 2012
On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 11:37:40PM +0100, Mans Rullgard wrote:
> The problem is the (__be32 *) casts. This is a normal pointer to a 32-bit,
> which is assumed to be aligned, and the cast overrides the packed attribute
> from the struct. Dereferencing these cast expressions must be done with the
> macros from asm/unaligned.h
Again, not going to happen. DaveM is on record for saying as much, but
I guess you're going to reject that as well, so I'm not sure why I'm
even bothering to reply.
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