Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:49:47 -0500 (EST) | | Subject | Re: Linux 3.3-rc4 | | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:45:26 -0800
> However, while true, x86-64 has 8-byte alignment for 'long', and > x86-32 has 4-byte alignment. Which means that even though the > structure layout is exactly the same, on x86-64 the *alignment* issue > will push it out to 304 bytes. > > That's just stupid. We've had that problem before. It's easy to > overlook, but that packet is just mis-designed.
A real shame, this should have used "__aligned_u64" from the beginning.
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