Taking the address of a field in a packed struct is a bad idea, because
it might not be actually aligned enough for that pointer type (and
thus cause a crash on dereference on some host architectures). Newer
versions of clang warn about this. Avoid the bug by not using the
"modify in place" byte sw
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 06:09:38PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Taking the address of a field in a packed struct is a bad idea, because
> it might not be actually aligned enough for that pointer type (and
> thus cause a crash on dereference on some host architectures). Newer
> versions of clang wa
Am 16.10.2018 um 19:09 hat Peter Maydell geschrieben:
> Taking the address of a field in a packed struct is a bad idea, because
> it might not be actually aligned enough for that pointer type (and
> thus cause a crash on dereference on some host architectures). Newer
> versions of clang warn about
On 17 October 2018 at 15:36, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 16.10.2018 um 19:09 hat Peter Maydell geschrieben:
>> Taking the address of a field in a packed struct is a bad idea, because
>> it might not be actually aligned enough for that pointer type (and
>> thus cause a crash on dereference on some host