Stable cvs version for 2.4

Jasmine Strong jasmine at hex.linuxgrrls.org
Wed Sep 4 10:21:36 EDT 2002


On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, David Woodhouse wrote:

>
> jasmine at hex.linuxgrrls.org said:
> >  WARNING! WARNING!  there are architectures that will break if you do
> > this.
>
> Architectures on which Linux runs?

Yes.  uCLinux, anyway.   Pointers should always be treated as opaque
unless you have a *really* good reason not to.

(Architectures that don't always use word-aligned pointers include m68k
and ARM Thumb.)

Jas.





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