Hi

On May 28, 2013 6:02 AM, "Stephen Warren" <swar...@wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>
> Some ARM compilers may emit code that makes unaligned accesses when
> faced with constructs such as:
>
> char mac[16] = "ethaddr";
>

Recently I have seen some of this emails. I understand the problem but is
it a compiler problem? Is it reported somewhere?

Michael

> Replace this with a strcpy() call instead to avoid this. strcpy() is
> used here, rather than replacing all usage of the mac variable with the
> string itself, since the loop itself sprintf()s to the variable each
> iteration, so strcpy() is doing basically the same thing.
>
> Reported-by: Florian Meier
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swar...@wwwdotorg.org>
> ---
>  common/fdt_support.c |    3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/common/fdt_support.c b/common/fdt_support.c
> index 812acb4..89e7883 100644
> --- a/common/fdt_support.c
> +++ b/common/fdt_support.c
> @@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ void fdt_fixup_ethernet(void *fdt)
>  {
>         int node, i, j;
>         char enet[16], *tmp, *end;
> -       char mac[16] = "ethaddr";
> +       char mac[16];
>         const char *path;
>         unsigned char mac_addr[6];
>
> @@ -463,6 +463,7 @@ void fdt_fixup_ethernet(void *fdt)
>                 return;
>
>         i = 0;
> +       strcpy(mac, "ethaddr");
>         while ((tmp = getenv(mac)) != NULL) {
>                 sprintf(enet, "ethernet%d", i);
>                 path = fdt_getprop(fdt, node, enet, NULL);
> --
> 1.7.10.4
>
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