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SubjectRe: Fw: [Bug 6421] New: kernel 2.6.10-2.6.16 on alpha: arch/alpha/kernel/io.c, iowrite16_rep() BUG_ON((unsigned long)src & 0x1) triggered
Running this on my alpha gives (gcc 4.0.2):

3000
0123456A01234567


Andrew Morton wrote:

>> Because networking does read/write "short" fields in various packet
>> header structures. Results are illustrated in a following example:
>>
>> char foo[] __attribute__((aligned(8))) = "0123456701234567";
>>
>> int main()
>> {
>> short *bar = (short *)&foo[7];
>> printf("%04x\n", *bar); /* 3037 */
>> *bar = 0x4241; /* "AB" */
>> printf("%s\n", foo);
>> return 0;
>> }
>> --------
>> 0037
>> ^^
>> 0123456A01234567
>> ^
>> Misalignment by two bytes for ints and longs is often unavoidable in
>> networking and we can cope with it, but there is no excuse of 1-byte
>> misalignment.


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