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Re: [PATCH] Fix misaligned access accessing HEADER struct in res_query.c
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: John David Anglin <dave dot anglin at bell dot net>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 13:56:06 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix misaligned access accessing HEADER struct in res_query.c
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On 06/15/2016 01:42 PM, John David Anglin wrote:
The attached patch fixes BZ 20243. The HEADER struct needs to be packed so that
byte accesses are used. Tested using glibc 2.22-11on hppa. Please install if okay.
-} HEADER;
+} __attribute__ ((packed)) HEADER;
Unfortunately, we cannot apply this simple fix because this is a public
header, and the above changes alignment of the struct. It would also
have to be __attribute__ ((__packed__)).
Florian