On Thursday 05 July 2012 03:57:19 Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> But to be honest, I haven't seen such badly a designed protocol or file
> format; their designers tend to make sure that (assuming the start of a
> protocol or file 'content' (frame, record, etc) is aligned, then all
> fields in it are aligned as well. Can someone point me to an example of
> a protocol or file format which does present such a misalignment risk ?

simply search the kernel for get_unaligned then.  there are plenty of examples 
in there.  granted, many apply to stacks that don't show up in u-boot (yet?) 
such as bluetooth, wireless, and irda, but i'm pretty sure TCP/IPv4 has a few 
edge cases too.
-mike

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