Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:41:02 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] connector: Some fixes for ia64 unaligned access errors | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:09:16 -0800
> Hmm, that GCC assumption conflicts with the prototypes of memcpy() I've > seen.
When GCC expands __builtin_memcpy() internally it looks at the types of the arguments, and what it knows about their guarenteed alignment.
memcpy()'s declaration of the first argument as "void *" has zero influence upon any of this. - 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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