Re: [RFC PATCH v1 00/40] Meta Linux Kernel Port

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On Tuesday 13 November 2012, James Hogan wrote:
> Hmm, I found the thread "ARM unaligned MMIO access with
> attribute((packed))" which appears to be one of the problems you're
> referring to. With some experimentation I can't reproduce this kind of
> problem with our current compiler, but it's certainly cause for concern.

Right. The main problem for reproducing this is that it depends on
undefined behavior in C (casting between pointers to types of different
alignment), and what gcc does in this case has changed a couple of times.

	Arnd
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