Re: [patch] avoid unaligned access when accessing poll stack

On Friday 31 March 2006 17:38, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Patch 70674f95c0a2ea694d5c39f4e514f538a09be36f
>   [PATCH] Optimize select/poll by putting small data sets on the stack
> resulted in the poll stack being 4-byte aligned on 64-bit
> architectures, causing misaligned accesses to elements in the array.
> 
> This patch fixes it by declaring the stack in terms of 'long' instead
> of 'char'.

You should do that for poll too then.

-Andi
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