On Mon, Oct 22 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >
> > Better safe than sorry...
> >
> > Is it possible that a chain entry pointer has bit 1 set on architectures
> > (e.g. m68k) where the natural alignment of 32-bit quantities is _2_ bytes,
> > not 4?
>
> Better make sure that such alignment never happens... But no, I don't
> think it will, since these things would generally always have to be
> allocated with an allocator, and the *allocator* won't return 2-byte
> aligned data structures.
How about stack allocations?
--
Jens Axboe
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