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Re: glibc 2.21 - Machine maintainers, please test your machines.


"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:48 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
>> "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:24 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
>>>> "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> It doesn't change the size, only increases alignment from 4 bytes to 8 bytes.
>>>>
>>>> Alignment is part of the ABI.
>>>>
>>>
>>> For x32, we can increase alignment from 4 bytes to 8 bytes without breaking
>>> existing binaries.
>>
>> The compiler may generate code to take advantage of the bigger
>> alignment, which will fail if not fulfilled (this is not just about
>> unaligned accesses).
>>
>
> Failure shouldn't happen on x32 in this case.

Which part of "this is not just about unaligned accesses" didn't you
understand?

Andreas.

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