| Date | Fri, 07 Dec 2012 19:43:13 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 03/44] Add CONFIG_HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_STRUCT for taskstats |
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On 12/05/2012 08:08 AM, James Hogan wrote: > On 64 bit architectures with no efficient unaligned access, taskstats > has to add some padding to a reply to prevent unaligned access warnings. > However this also needs to apply to 32 bit architectures with 64 bit > struct alignment such as metag (which has 64 bit memory accesses).
Wait... 64-bit struct alignment on structures with only 32-bit members? That might be... interesting... in a number of places...
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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