On Mon, Oct 22 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > > Better safe than sorry... > > > > Is it possible that a chain entry pointer has bit 1 set on architectures > > (e.g. m68k) where the natural alignment of 32-bit quantities is _2_ bytes, > > not 4? > > Better make sure that such alignment never happens... But no, I don't > think it will, since these things would generally always have to be > allocated with an allocator, and the *allocator* won't return 2-byte > aligned data structures.
How about stack allocations? -- Jens Axboe - 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/
