On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Miod Vallat wrote:
> I love this. I have verified that kernels for all our gcc4 platforms
> still build with this diff.
Awesome! I also heard back from guenther@ that he completed an i386
base build without warnings too.
Do we want to test this any further (e.g.
> GCC supports an "aligned" attribute to specify a minimum alignment for
> types/objects. However, if an object is allocated on the stack and
> its alignment exceeds the "preferred stack boundary", then GCC 4.2
> silently ignores the alignment.
[...]
> Since newer GCC properly support overly ali
GCC supports an "aligned" attribute to specify a minimum alignment for
types/objects. However, if an object is allocated on the stack and
its alignment exceeds the "preferred stack boundary", then GCC 4.2
silently ignores the alignment.
This bit us 4 years ago when the SCSI stack started allocati
