Re: [RFC][PATCH] A generic boolean

Jes Sorensen
2006-08-04T16:26:42Z

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> writes:
>
>> We know that today long is the only one that differs and that
>> m68k has horrible natural alignment rules for historical reasons, but
>> besides that it's pretty sane.
>
> Try determining the alignment of u64 on i386. You will be surprised.

If thats the case, then thats really scary :-( I'd claim it's a bug and
I am willing to be that iptables isn't the only place that is affected
or will be in the future.

Would a fix along the lines of this work?

typedef long long u64 __attribute__ ((aligned (8));

Cheers,
Jes