On Friday 07 December 2007 04:52:14 David Miller wrote: > From: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 13:43:41 -0800 > > > On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:33:18PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > > > Userspace handles this transparently through fault traps. > > > > This is exactly what I was assuming. On the SPARC, in this > > instance, it did not (check back earlier in this discussion). > > Right, you get a SIGBUS, and this is what will happen on > MIPS as well. > > It is even defined in the application ABIs for these platforms that > all objects must be aligned to their type's natural size. > > So, how do we handle unaligned data in userspace then? A _lot_ of applications are broken if that's right what you say. -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
