Hello,

I would just like to add, for someone with related issue.
A better (and working) solution,  for arm core , would be to change the A
bit in SCTRL register.

This A bit shall allow/not-allow unaligned access in armv7 core.
see here:
http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.faqs/ka15414.html

Regards,
Ran

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 1:14 PM, Ran Shalit <ransha...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dirk,
>
> Thanks a lot for the idea with the compilation flag.
> That was the key. I wasn't familiar with this feature before.
>
> Best Regards,
> Ran
>
> On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 10:18 PM, Dirk Ziegelmeier <d...@ziegelmeier.net>
> wrote:
> > Packed structs imply two things: No padding inside the struct AND the
> > struct's location may be unaligned in memory. So when this u32 access
> fails
> > at runtime your compiler did not generate correct code for your platform.
> > When copying an u32 to/from a packed struct, something like memcpy needs
> to
> > be used when the processor requires aligned access.
> > Some ARM platforms can be configured to handle unaligned access, and
> there
> > is a gcc command line flag that tells the compiler it can assume this
> > capability (sorry forgot the name of the flag, something like
> > -munaligned-access, google it). Maybe this points you in the right
> > direction.
> >
> >
> > Ciao
> > Dirk
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 2:47 PM, Ran Shalit <ransha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I get stuck in ip_addr_copy when called by ip_input.
> >> I am using MEM_ALIGNMENT 4, and packed structs.
> >> I tried many stuff, but nothing yet helped.
> >> If I try MEM_ALIGNMENT 1, I get stuck in much earlier phase.
> >> I'm using lwip 1.4.1 , which is a stable release as I understand.
> >>
> >> Is there any idea how this issue can be fixed ?
> >>
> >> This is the code for ip_addr_copy
> >> #define ip_addr_copy(dest, src) ((dest).addr = (src).addr)
> >>
> >> Best Regards,
> >> Ran
> >>
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