Hi, On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Any _real_ CPU will simply never care about _anything_ else than just the > > > size of the datum in question. > > > > ..or alignment which a dedicated atomic type would allow to be attached. > > Can you give any example of a real CPU where alignment matters? > > Sure, it needs to be naturally aligned, but that's true of _any_ type in > the kernel. We don't do unaligneds without "get_unaligned()" and friends. m68060 produces a trap for unaligned atomic access, unfortunately standard alignment is smaller than this. bye, Roman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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