Re: [PATCH] Re: Sparc32: random invalid instruction occourances onsparc32 (sun4c)

[David Woodhouse]

On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 19:57 +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote:
> > Commit b46b8f19c9cd435ecac4d9d12b39d78c137ecd66 partially fixed alignment 
> > issues but does not ensure that all 64bit alignment requirements of sparc32 
> > are met. Tests have shown that the redzone2 word can become misallignd.

Oops, sorry about that. I'm not sure about your patch though -- I think
I'd prefer to keep the redzone misaligned (and hence _right_ next to the
real data), and just deal with it.

typedef unsigned long long __aligned__((BYTES_PER_WORD)) redzone_t;

-- 
dwmw2

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