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 -- 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