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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] fat: fix unaligned errors
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 05:16:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901020516.47724.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3efb10970901020132t342ea5d3xda8763411d6ed173@mail.gmail.com>

On Friday 02 January 2009 04:32:39 Remy Bohmer wrote:
> 2009/1/2 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>:
> > From: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
> > A couple of buffers in the fat code are declared as an array of bytes. 
> > But it is then cast up to a structure with 16bit and 32bit members. 
> > Since GCC assumes structure alignment here, we have to force the buffers
> > to be aligned according to the structure usage.
>
> Just curious (because before the Christmas holidays I was also
> debugging some FAT problems, and maybe this is related)
> What problem/symptoms does this patch fix? How did the bug show itself?

i think should cover all your questions ...
http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/tracker/4765
-mike
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-02 10:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-02  0:54 [U-Boot] [PATCH] fat: fix unaligned errors Mike Frysinger
2009-01-02  9:32 ` Remy Bohmer
2009-01-02 10:16   ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2009-01-02 22:20 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-01-02 22:42   ` Mike Frysinger
2009-01-02 23:48     ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-01-03  1:47       ` Mike Frysinger
2009-01-03  1:47       ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] " Mike Frysinger
2009-01-24  1:03         ` Wolfgang Denk

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