Re: [Bluez-devel] Alignment issue

[Stephen Crane <steve.crane@rococosoft.com>]

Hi Daryl, Marcel,

On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 00:12, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Daryl,
> 
> > I ran into an alignment problem on our ARM platform. It showed up as corrupt
> > SDP responses. I traced it back to bt_put_unaligned() in bluetooth.h
> > 
> > The attached patch should fix the problem (it does as far as I can tell).
> > The compiler probably thinks both arguments to memcpy() are aligned and so
> > makes an optimization which breaks the copy (because the destination is not
> > actually aligned). Perhaps this is a compiler bug... I'm using gcc 3.3.3.
> > After googling and reading some discussion on the topic it seems that it's
> > probably not a compiler bug. I'll leave that for someone else to decide. :)
> 
> I am not an expert in this area. I thought that this method of getting
> unaligned support was compatible accross the platforms. Looking at the
> kernel unaligned for ARM shows me that this is actually more different.
> I need verification of that patch with GCC 2.95 and from PowerPC and
> SPARC platforms. I would do it by myself for SPARC, but the harddrive of
> my Sun machine is dead.

Why are these macros even here? ISTR Max having some reason not to use
<asm/unaligned.h> but surely that's what it's there for...

Steve
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