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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
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To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] [usb/host]: use get/put_unaligned_* helpers to fix more potential unaligned issues.
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Am Donnerstag 15 Mai 2008 15:03:20 schrieben Sie:
> On Thursday 15 May 2008, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > This is not very nice. If we pass around unaligned pointers we should mark
> > those not catch errors later on.
> 
> ISTR that GCC doesn't have a way to annotate pointers that way.

But we can do the _user annotation, can't we?

	Regards
		Oliver