------- Comment #6 from sqrammi at hotmail dot com 2007-01-25 17:28 ------- The problem is that the compiler is not either 1) automatically aligning the buffer so that the program actually works or 2) warning the user that their code is retarded and needs to be modified so that all the stacks fit to multiples of 32-bits.
wpa_supplicant is wrought with code that does this, but I don't think the maintainers understand the problem because gcc doesn't complain, and the problem doesn't show up until runtime. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30581
