Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] r8169: Avoid pointer aliasing | From | Eric Dumazet <> | Date | Tue, 5 Feb 2019 12:23:18 -0800 |
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On 02/05/2019 12:18 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> I still think adding __align(<even#>) is unnecessary here unless > it follows something like a bool or a u8.
This would be some historical side effect, and we do not want to rely on that.
A security feature could in fact ask a compiler to perform random shuffling of automatic variables.
( a la __randomize_layout )
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