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From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.21: fixdep starts spitting out 'unaligned traps'
To: kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Kai Germaschewski)
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 15:40:24 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: thunder7@xs4all.nl (Jurriaan on Alpha), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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> Yeah, makes sense, that's a bug trap to test if we guessed endianness 
> right. Could you try to just comment out the call to traps() in main()?
> 
> The rest of the code should be safe. If commenting out fixes the problem, 
> could you try to replace
> 
> -	char *test = "CONF";
> +	static char __attribute__((aligned(8))) test[] = "CONF";

This works:

#include <netinet/in.h>

if(htonl(999UL)==999UL){
  // brain-dead byte order
}else{
  // correct byte order
}

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