Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:49:40 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout |
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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.
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