On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 09:24:58AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Moreover, as DaveM said, we can't reliably put structures into > > independent objects, put them into a special section, and then expect > > array access over them (via the section boundaries) after linking the > > objects together to just "work" due to variable alignment choices in > > different situations. > > Why not? > > That's what we normally do. Just align the "__modver", and you should > be all good. What's the problem? >From what I understand __attribute__ ((aligned(x))) only guarantees minimum alignment, not exact (gapless) alignment. GCC seems to lay out pointers in the section without gaps on all arches that we have. Thanks. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
