Hi Ted, On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 1:10 AM, Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]> wrote: > Why would there be an unaligned access? What I was suggesting was an > array of u32, and we just do two separate u32 accesses with a shift in > the case of get_random_u64. There's nothing illegal about that. > > u64 retval; > > retval = (array[pointer] << 32) + array[pointer+1]; > pointer += 2;
Oh, I see now. I thought you were suggesting casting u32* to u64*. Yea, this approach works. It's slower than my code, but it gets the job done. Unless I hear back from you saying "keep with your approach instead of this one", I'll submit a v2 to you containing this approach instead. Jason
