My WLI-UC-GNM up crash

Mon Jul 29 19:00:13 UTC 2013

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 12:34:00PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
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> On Jul 29, 2013, at 11:58 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
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> > The aligned will make sure that the structure gets padded properly to the size specified. Only on ARM/MIPS etc, structures get automatically aligned according to the element in the structure requiring the greatest alignment.
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> I'd turn this around and say only on x86 do structures not get aligned this way. On any riscy architecture, unaligned accesses are expensive, which is why the ABI there mandates this.
> 
The alignment of the structure to the largest alignment of the member is
required by the ABIs on i386 and amd64 as well.
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