From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Schwab Subject: Re: Early crash (was: Re: module: show version information for built-in modules in sysfs) Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:10:04 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20110201210944.GA12348@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> <20110201222637.GA17521@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> <20110202194227.GA13794@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> <20110202235948.GA8676@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110202235948.GA8676@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> (Dmitry Torokhov's message of "Wed, 2 Feb 2011 15:59:49 -0800") Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Rusty Russell , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Linux/m68k , Linux-Arch List-Id: linux-arch.vger.kernel.org Dmitry Torokhov writes: > Even pointers? I'd expect pointers to be aligned on 4-bytes boundaries? Pointers are not special in any way. Why should they? On the machine level pointers are just numbers. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]:54258 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751278Ab1BCAKW (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Feb 2011 19:10:22 -0500 From: Andreas Schwab Subject: Re: Early crash (was: Re: module: show version information for built-in modules in sysfs) References: <20110201210944.GA12348@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> <20110201222637.GA17521@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> <20110202194227.GA13794@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> <20110202235948.GA8676@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:10:04 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20110202235948.GA8676@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> (Dmitry Torokhov's message of "Wed, 2 Feb 2011 15:59:49 -0800") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Rusty Russell , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Linux/m68k , Linux-Arch Message-ID: <20110203001004.ncyQHcP2OrHb4H49cl-PR99ipbOfaTQAQaatnjbNi4I@z> Dmitry Torokhov writes: > Even pointers? I'd expect pointers to be aligned on 4-bytes boundaries? Pointers are not special in any way. Why should they? On the machine level pointers are just numbers. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."