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Re: Network programming for eCos under linux
- To: "Trenton D. Adams" <tadams at theone dot dnsalias dot com>
- Subject: [ECOS] Re: Network programming for eCos under linux
- From: "Grant Edwards" <grante at visi dot com>
- Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 16:07:51 GMT
- Cc: "'Jonathan Larmour'" <jlarmour at redhat dot com>,"'Andrew Lunn'" <andrew dot lunn at ascom dot ch>,"'eCos discussion'" <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- References: <000001c12022$dfa2f460$090110ac@TRENT>
Trenton D. Adams writes:
> >
> > > So, how would one go about making a buffer word aligned or DWORD
> > aligned
> > > just to be safe?
> >
> > something along the lines of:
> >
> > char buffer[1024];
> > #define ALIGNMENT 8
> > #define ALIGNUP(_x_) (((char *)(_x_) + ALIGN-1) & ~(ALIGN-1))
> > int *foo = ALIGNUP(buffer);
> >
> > You could also use __alignof(int) to give the alignment but that's
> > obviously a GNU C-ism.
> >
>
> First of all, I assume your ALIGN is actually supposed to be ALIGNMENT!
>
> I don't understand your macro. Let's say _x_ happens to be memory
> address 0x201 the macro formula would go like this
>
> = (0x201 + 7) & ~(7)
> = 0x208 & 0xfffffff8
> = 0x208
>
> So, now foo is pointing to an integer that is not at the beginning of
> the buffer. This would mean that I couldn't put anything at the
> beginning of the buffer, correct?
Not by dereferenceing a short or int pointer. You've got to use memcpy().
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Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com