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> Then the kernel should say so, rather than giving a cryptic message like
> that, and containing code which isn't actually guaranteed to compile, even
> with a compiler which _does_ align the structure as we want it.
Your patch (tries to) transform a compile and link time check into a
runtime check. Not nice.
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