Re: [PATCH] Fix undefined/miscompiled construct in kernel parameters

[Richard Henderson]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:23:41AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Since Andi reports that even that doesn't work for x86-64, I'd say
> apply this patch based on his: it's an arbitrary change anyway.

No, Andi located the *real* problem.  The compiler was over-aligning
these objects, which added padding, which broke the array semantics
you were looking for.  The solution is to add an attribute aligned;
he's sent a patch to Linus already.

r~