Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Subject | Re: Early crash (was: Re: module: show version information for built-in modules in sysfs) | Date | Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:38:12 +0100 |
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Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com> writes:
> Are pointers (along with ints/longs) on m68k naturally aligned on word > boundary even though they are 32 bit?
On m68k, every object by default is at most aligned to a 2 byte boundary. That's a heritage of the original Sun m68000 compiler, which served as the template for the gcc configuration for Linux/m68k when the porting started.
Andreas.
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