From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:11:56 -0800 > EVERY SINGLE OF YOUR ARGUMENTS WORK FOR "pointer" TOO! It at least will not happen at the current time, because GCC only plays these games on aggregates. Also, for exception tables, we've avoided this problem because we emit the exception tables by hand using inline asm and therefore explicitly control all aspects of the alignment and size. The GCC manual even documents the alignment attribute behavior. Also, please don't shoot the messenger, I didn't make GCC behave this way but I doubt you'll have any luck undoing this behavior in the tools which therefore means as pragmatists we have to handle it one way or another. -- 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
