Re: [PATCH] ihex: Add support for CS:IP/EIP records

From: Mark Brown
Date: Thu Sep 16 2010 - 06:42:06 EST


On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 02:27:44PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > + data32 = &record->data[0];
> > + *data32 = htonl(*data32);

> firmware/ihex2fw.c: In function 'process_ihex':
> firmware/ihex2fw.c:231: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type

Which architecture are you using - my AMD64 system isn't noticing these
things for me?

> And afacit data[] isn't 32-bit aligned and I don't know that all
> architectures support htonl() against a misaligned pointer.

We're pretty much safe in userspace, if the hardware doesn't support it
then as far as I'm aware pretty much all OSs do a software fixup. This
isn't great for performance but works.

> I'll drop the patch.

OK, I'll spin it later today.
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