Re: lib/klist.c: bit 0 in pointer can't be used as flag

From: Jesper Nilsson
Date: Wed Jan 14 2009 - 05:36:58 EST


On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:21:40AM +0100, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jesper Nilsson <Jesper.Nilsson@xxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:19:08 +0100
> > The following patch works for CRIS, and is less intrusive than
> > my earlier patch. If this the way to go I can resubmit a proper patch.
>
> Out of curiosity, is there a way to get gcc to output code such
> that data objects are aligned more naturally? Some option or
> similar?

There's flags for alignment of objects, but no flags for changing
structure layout or size, which is probably what we run into here.

/^JN - Jesper Nilsson
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