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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: Early crash (was: Re: module: show version information for built-in modules in sysfs)
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:38:12 +0100
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Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com> writes:

> Are pointers (along with ints/longs) on m68k naturally aligned on word
> boundary even though they are 32 bit?

On m68k, every object by default is at most aligned to a 2 byte
boundary.  That's a heritage of the original Sun m68000 compiler, which
served as the template for the gcc configuration for Linux/m68k when the
porting started.

Andreas.

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