Re: Early crash

Dmitry Torokhov
2011-02-07T19:28:30Z

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 11:27:08AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
> Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 08:58:29 -0800
>
> > But, theoretically speaking, nothing stops GCC to align pointers with
> > "gaps" as well? Let's say having everything (or some) aligned on
> > quadword boundary even though arch is 32 bit?
>
> The alignment business only applies to aggregates (ie. structs and
> unions).
>
> This has been confirmed via several weeks of expermentation with
> different GCC versions on different platforms as well.

I see. OK, then I'll prepare a patch to switch over to struct + pointer
scheme.

Thanks,

Dmitry