Re: [Linux-ia64] do me a favor

[Dan Pop <Dan.Pop@cern.ch>]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Qiu HongBing wrote:

> My problem is as follows:
> 
> struct aa{
> unsigned short a;
> unsigned short b;
> unsigned short c;
> unsigned short d;
> unsigned int e;
> unsigned int f;
> unsigned int g;
> unsigned int h;
> unsigned short i;
> }
> ...
> struct aa *a1;
> ...
> 
> fun1(char *,unsigned int *,char *,char *,unsigned int * temp,unsigned int *)
> {
> ...
> *temp\x10;
> ...
> }
> ...
> 
> fun1(a,b,c,d,&a1->b,e);
> ...
> 
> On IA64 Linux RedHat 7.1(2.4.3-3), when the program run to
> fun1(a,b,c,d,&a1->b,e), the kernel write into syslog some message which is
> "Nov  5 10:12:02 sdv2 kernel: ESMmlx(7837): unaligned access to
> 0x600000000001684c, ip=0x2000000000624370".

The reason is obvious: fun1 expects temp to be a pointer to unsigned
int, but you're passing it &a1->b, which is a pointer to unsigned
short.  The compiler should have actually warned you about that.

> But if I modify the source as follows and it is OK. I dont know why. So I
> want to get some help to solve the real cause.

Then, either define the b member as unsigned int, or the temp
parameter as pointer to unsigned short.

Dan