On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 02:01:19PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:54:57 -0800 > > > Is there a -fdata-align or something? Or would __attribute__((packed)) > > help? Something that explicitly tells gcc "don't do this", instead of > > "let's add indirection and hope gcc doesn't add alignment for _that_". > > Especially as the extra pointer makes the code even uglier. > > The tracing folks went down the path of trying to use packed in > various ways, to no avail, because no matter what they tried it broke > other things. > > > And if we do have to use the pointer thing, let's at least then do the > > pointer with asms, so that gcc _really_ can't screw it up. Rather than > > just move the potential bug around. > > That's fine with me. Any pointers as to how to emit these pointers with asm? -- 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
