On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 09:24:58AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Moreover, as DaveM said, we can't reliably put structures into
independent objects, put them into a special section, and then expect
array access over them (via the section boundaries) after linking the
objects together to just "work" due to variable alignment choices in
different situations.
Why not?
That's what we normally do. Just align the "__modver", and you should
be all good. What's the problem?
From what I understand __attribute__ ((aligned(x))) only guarantees
minimum alignment, not exact (gapless) alignment. GCC seems to lay out
pointers in the section without gaps on all arches that we have.
Thanks.
--
Dmitry
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-m68k" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
