On 12/26/2013 02:20 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
Gordan Bobic <gordan@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
(e.g. (but not limited to) a large number of packages make little or
no effort to ensure memory accesses are aligned - including the likes
of e2fsprogs, and transparent alignment fixup in hardware is only
available on armv7 and later).
I'm surprised that Ted isn't willing to fix issues in e2fsprogs.
If you can point me to the upstream bug reports I can ping him to see
what's up?
Take a look here:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/33324
As has been mentioned before, there is a whole shedload of packages that
have similar issues - I have seen literally thousands of alignment
faults get reported (I have the alignment set to fix+warn on my armv5tel
builders) in various packages during build and test stages. Once upon a
time I planned to collate the data and get the issue reported to all
upstream maintainers, but that is a mammoth task just to report, let
alone fix, and I have very little faith there is enough will among the
developers to fix all the affected packages and ensure they write code
that isn't affected by this problem going forward.
Gordan
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