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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: matthltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: zaitcev@redhat.com, erikj@sgi.com, guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] connector: Some fixes for ia64 unaligned access errors
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:41:02 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061211.194102.74749040.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1165892956.24721.129.camel@localhost.localdomain>

From: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:09:16 -0800

> Hmm, that GCC assumption conflicts with the prototypes of memcpy() I've
> seen.

When GCC expands __builtin_memcpy() internally it looks at the types
of the arguments, and what it knows about their guarenteed alignment.

memcpy()'s declaration of the first argument as "void *" has
zero influence upon any of this.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-12  3:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-07 23:22 Erik Jacobson
2006-12-09  3:20 ` Pete Zaitcev
2006-12-09  7:47   ` Matt Helsley
2006-12-09 21:09   ` Erik Jacobson
2006-12-10  2:34     ` Pete Zaitcev
2006-12-11 23:52       ` Matt Helsley
2006-12-12  1:29         ` Pete Zaitcev
2006-12-12  1:50           ` David Miller
2006-12-12  3:09             ` Matt Helsley
2006-12-12  3:41               ` David Miller [this message]
2006-12-12  2:07           ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-12-11 23:52 ` Matt Helsley
2006-12-12 17:54   ` Erik Jacobson
2006-12-13  0:45     ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-13  2:31       ` Erik Jacobson
2006-12-13  2:38         ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-13  6:08           ` Erik Jacobson

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