On 01/07/2011 06:52 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: >>>>> No, it's not the same issue. >>>>> >>>>> On x86 as described on your link, it's just a performance penalty if >>>>> your members are not aligned. On ARM without fixup, you read actual >>>>> garbage as described on my article. >>>> >>>> Yup, I was more referring to the data not aligning when unioning >>> >>> That's nothing to do with this issue. >>> >>> With this issue, a correct structure in a typedef or a struct with >>> correct alignment padding turns to crap because the structure pointed to >>> is not on a u32 boundary for example. >> >> I see. But shouldn't the compiler be taking care of that? -malign? > > The compiler will always take care of that, unless someone does > something really evil in either the code or the gcc options.
s/will/should/ and I might agree. :) Gordan _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
