[U-Boot] [PATCH] fat: fix unaligned errors

Mike Frysinger
2009-01-02T10:16:46Z

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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