On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 07:17:48AM -0600, Philipp Rumpf wrote:
> That's an unaligned access. What actually probably happens is there is
> padding between .processor and .ptrace. While this isn't news
> (last_processor is an int between two pointers), we probably shouldn't
> rely on the compiler padding structs in assembly.
No, it's aligned properly. 104=8*13.
So no padding between int processor and ulong ptrace.
>
> So changing TASK_PTRACE to be 108 seems to be the easiest fix for now.
>
BTW, I was confused for a moment by these numbers too, but then
I realized that they are decimal, not hex :-)
Ivan.
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