On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Roman Zippel wrote: > > > > Any _real_ CPU will simply never care about _anything_ else than just the > > size of the datum in question. > > ..or alignment which a dedicated atomic type would allow to be attached.
Can you give any example of a real CPU where alignment matters? Sure, it needs to be naturally aligned, but that's true of _any_ type in the kernel. We don't do unaligneds without "get_unaligned()" and friends. Btw, if you want to leave out 8-bit and 16-bit data, that's fine. So generally you'd only need to handle 32-bit (and 64-bit on a 64-bit architecture) accesses anyway. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/