On 18 June 2011 22:17, Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pi...@linaro.org> wrote: > Turns out that a prominent ARM developer still has binaries from the > ARMv3 era around, and the default of not fixing up misaligned user space > accesses is for remaining compatible with them.
> So if you do have a version of glibc that is not from 15 years ago (that > would have to be a.out and not ELF if it was) then you do not want to > let misaligned accesses go through unfixed, otherwise you'll simply have > latent data corruption somewhere. Can we tie the alignment correction default to depend if a.out support is in the kernel or not? Riku -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
