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From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 15:02:42 +0800
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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] [batman] Add padding around allocation
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On Thursday 28 May 2009 18:40:08 Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> Architectures with a special alignment for load and store operations on
> datatypes bigger than bytes will return a prealigned memory region when
> calling malloc. When we add our data structure before and after this
> region we destroy this alignment.
> To fix this problem we add special regions with "magic" padding data.
> To be sure that it is big enough for every load/store operation we use
> the alignment for uintmax_t or a pointer even when the architecture only
> supports smaller load/store operations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>

@Nathan: Could you let me know if these patches work for you ? If so I'll 
commit them. 

Regards,
Marek