Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756653Ab1BCRiS (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2011 12:38:18 -0500 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:46020 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756620Ab1BCRiQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2011 12:38:16 -0500 From: Andreas Schwab To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Rusty Russell , "linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" , Linux/m68k , Linux-Arch Subject: Re: Early crash (was: Re: module: show version information for built-in modules in sysfs) References: <20110201210944.GA12348@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> <20110201222637.GA17521@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> <20110202194227.GA13794@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> <20110202235948.GA8676@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> <20110203002459.GA26729@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> X-Yow: Yow! I like my new DENTIST... Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:38:12 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20110203002459.GA26729@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> (Dmitry Torokhov's message of "Wed, 2 Feb 2011 16:24:59 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2.93 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 800 Lines: 21 Dmitry Torokhov writes: > Are pointers (along with ints/longs) on m68k naturally aligned on word > boundary even though they are 32 bit? On m68k, every object by default is at most aligned to a 2 byte boundary. That's a heritage of the original Sun m68000 compiler, which served as the template for the gcc configuration for Linux/m68k when the porting started. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/