On 08/25/2011 04:36 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
On 25 August 2011 14:22, Avi Kivity<a...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 08/25/2011 04:13 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Packing all structs is not really a good idea, more a last resort.
>
> btw, how are the non-x86s handling this? by trapping and fixuping in the
> kernel?
If a structure's packing means it doesn't adhere to the relevant
alignment constraints for the architecture gcc will access the
misaligned integers with a sequence of byte loads and stores.
Thanks, good to know.
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