Messages in this thread | | | Date | 7 Apr 2004 20:08:35 +0200 | Date | Wed, 7 Apr 2004 20:08:35 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: amd64 questions |
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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.
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