2011/7/19 Marcel Moolenaar <mar...@xcllnt.net>:
>
> On Jul 18, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Attilio Rao wrote:
>
>> Author: attilio
>> Date: Mon Jul 18 15:19:40 2011
>> New Revision: 224187
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/224187
>>
>> Log:
>>  - Remove the eintrcnt/eintrnames usage and introduce the concept of
>>    sintrcnt/sintrnames which are symbols containing the size of the 2
>>    tables.
>>  - For amd64/i386 remove the storage of intr* stuff from assembly files.
>>    This area can be widely improved by applying the same to other
>>    architectures and likely finding an unified approach among them and
>>    move the whole code to be MI. More work in this area is expected to
>>    happen fairly soon.
>>
>>  No MFC is previewed for this patch.
>
> You just broke ia64 and possibly other 64-bit architectures:
>
> ".word" declares a 16-bit integral on ia64 and the size symbols
> are of type size_t (=64 bit). We'll be having misaligned loads
> (= kernel panics) and/or reading garbage...

I'm a bit surprised of this though.
.hword was supposed to be the 16-bit integral, while .word was
supposed to be the 32-bits one, if I read my "info as" on amd64.

Anyway, what do you think about this patch? (I still need to test it):
http://www.freebsd.org/~attilio/64bits-fixup.diff

Thanks,
Attilio


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