On 9/28/09, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> i just turned on warnings in an NSLU2 running squeeze (a buildd for me)
> and note alignment warnings from several processes:
>
> pdftex (reproducable with "aptitude reinstall texlive-base-bin")
>
> aptitude (also reproducable with "aptitude reinstall
On 09/29/2009 04:16 PM, Paul Brook wrote:
>> char f[4];
>> ...
>> any idea why gcc would lay out the memory differently for armel than for
>> i386? i haven't tried it on the old arm architecture.
>
> The alignment of "f" is entirely arbitrary.
>
> It could be effected by any number of things, in
On 9/29/09, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> char f[4];
>
> void test(char* x, short z) {
> short* y = (short*)x;
> *y=z;
> }
>
> int main(int argc, const char* argv[]) {
> test(f,argc);
> return 0;
> }
>
> any idea why gcc would lay out the memory differently for armel than for
> i386?
> char f[4];
> ...
> any idea why gcc would lay out the memory differently for armel than for
> i386? i haven't tried it on the old arm architecture.
The alignment of "f" is entirely arbitrary.
It could be effected by any number of things, including but not limited to
where other variables happ
On 09/29/2009 01:27 PM, Martin Guy wrote:
> On 9/28/09, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> However, it seems like we should still be filing bugs against packages
>> which trigger alignment errors, no?
> Absolutely.
i just filed a bug against libc6 (so this might be implicated in a lot
of the bugs we
On 9/28/09, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> after dealing with #548815, i'm a little bit concerned about the
> behavior of the kernel in the face of alignment errors on armel.
>
> i've read http://bugs.debian.org/397616 and followed the references in
> there, so i think i understand why the defau
On 9/28/09, Pierre Chifflier wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 04:28:36PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > ARM porters: can you shed any light on this?
> As I have no armel platform here (and no knowledge specific to the
> architecture), some help would be appreciated.
There is a big fast arme
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