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SubjectRe: amd64 questions
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 12:49:20PM -0400, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> >The problem is always the long long alignment. AMD64/IA64 have different
> >alignment for long long than i386. The emulation was originally tested
> >on some RISC port, where the alignment is the same.
>
> What about a compiler flag to emit i386 code with the more strenuous
> long long alignment?

That would break other things, glibc uses long long heavily too.
The only simple way would be to add the necessary alignment by hand and
create a special 32bit on 64bit kernel iptables or ipsec.

-Andi
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