Re: [RFC][PATCH] A generic boolean

[Jes Sorensen]

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Jes Sorensen <jes@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > We know that today long is the only one that differs and that
> > m68k has horrible natural alignment rules for historical reasons, but
> > besides that it's pretty sane.
>
> Try determining the alignment of u64 on i386.  You will be surprised.

If thats the case, then thats really scary :-( I'd claim it's a bug and
I am willing to be that iptables isn't the only place that is affected
or will be in the future.

Would a fix along the lines of this work?

typedef long long u64 __attribute__ ((aligned (8));

Cheers,
Jes
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