Re: [PATCH 0/2] jump label: update for .39

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

* Steven Rostedt (rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 16:22 -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> 
> > > Anyway, I think the best thing for now is to have Jason add
> > > the .align(sizeof(long)) in the inline assembly for all locations and be
> > > done with it.
> > 
> > You seem to be contradicting yourself here. I'm concerned about having
> > "structures" of a size not power of two. Can we simply either
> 
> But we don't have structures. We have data that has been allocated in
> assembly. Come to think of it, it may be best to keep these as 
> ".align 4".

The .align 4 is certainly not the right answer, because it will trigger
unaligned accesses on some 64-bit architectures, as we have faced with
trace event.

Mathieu

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