On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 08:17:17PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> That said, I do think that the "don't assume stack alignment, do it by
> hand" may be the safer thing. Because who knows what the random rules
> will be on other architectures.
Sure we can ban the use of attribute aligned on stacks. But
what about indirect uses through structures? For example, if
someone does
struct foo {
} __attribute__ ((__aligned__(16)));
int bar(...)
{
struct foo f;
return baz(&f);
}
then baz will end up with an unaligned argument. The worst part
is that it is not at all obvious to the person writing the function
bar.
Cheers,
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