On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Rusty Russell wrote:
> If you do this, *please* add:
> /* Above check not sufficient if align of int < size. Break link. */
> if (__alignof__(int) < sizeof(int)) {
> extern void __error_small_int_align();
> __error_small_int_align();
> }
are you aware of any platform we care about that has a word alignment like
this? But in any case, this should not matter these days, all we need is a
guarantee that the word is accessed atomically by the kernel when it reads
it, pure int alignment should be enough for that.
Ingo
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