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From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 19:16:50 +0800
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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv2] [batman] Align pointers in hna list
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On Wednesday 03 June 2009 18:39:26 Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> Architectures like SuperARM or Xscale needs aligned data for multi-byte
> operations. GCC can create instructions sequences for packed data, but
> must know that something will not be aligned. Since list_add will
> operate on untyped data over void-pointers it cannot know that
> hna_global_entry is packed and will create only a fast and unsafe
> version for load and store operations.
> It is only important for the first 5 bytes of hna_global_entry to be
> packed we can force these elements to be aligned without changing
> the relative addresses of the first bytes.


Sven, thanks a lot for your patches and thanks for your debugging help, 
Nathan. I just applied these patches. :-)

Regards,
Marek