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On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Better safe than sorry... > > Is it possible that a chain entry pointer has bit 1 set on architectures > (e.g. m68k) where the natural alignment of 32-bit quantities is _2_ bytes, > not 4? Better make sure that such alignment never happens... But no, I don't think it will, since these things would generally always have to be allocated with an allocator, and the *allocator* won't return 2-byte aligned data structures. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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