Re: [PATCH] connector: Some fixes for ia64 unaligned access errors

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From: Matt Helsley <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:09:16 -0800

> Hmm, that GCC assumption conflicts with the prototypes of memcpy() I've
> seen.

When GCC expands __builtin_memcpy() internally it looks at the types
of the arguments, and what it knows about their guarenteed alignment.

memcpy()'s declaration of the first argument as "void *" has
zero influence upon any of this.
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