From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unaligned access question
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 08:32:25 +0000 [thread overview]
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Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> writes:
> On 25 Sep 2003, Ian Wienand <ianw@gelato.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This isn't directly related to kernel development, but I am a bit
>> stumped as to why my test program below causes an unaligned access
>> when 'i' is 7 (that is, when it tries to access across a 64 bit
>> boundary of 'array'). It's counter intuitive to me, I would have
>> expected it either fault on all loads (for every value of 'i') or to
>> have not faulted at all.
>
> I think adding
>
> __attribute__ ((aligned (1)))
You cannot decrease alignment with the aligned attribute, for that you
need the packed attribute. This sets alignment to 1, which you can
increase again with the aligned attribute.
Andreas.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-25 1:34 Unaligned access question Ian Wienand
2003-09-25 2:04 ` Peter Chubb
2003-09-25 2:23 ` Martin Pool
2003-09-25 8:32 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
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