Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL] slirp: Fix issues with -mms-bitfields

[Avi Kivity]

On 08/25/2011 04:36 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 25 August 2011 14:22, Avi Kivity<address@hidden>  wrote:
> >  On 08/25/2011 04:13 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >>  Packing all structs is not really a good idea, more a last resort.
> >
> >  btw, how are the non-x86s handling this? by trapping and fixuping in the
> >  kernel?
>
> If a structure's packing means it doesn't adhere to the relevant
> alignment constraints for the architecture gcc will access the
> misaligned integers with a sequence of byte loads and stores.

Thanks, good to know.

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