From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Cc: Knut Omang <knut.omang@oracle.com>,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] packed structures and unaligned accesses (sparc)
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 07:43:01 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <64d527bd-c639-7300-0a23-a70e739f8fe8@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA-t7xRo-2CkipmYKE_vUxp8oUBML8ss7G8U_pVhM79H6w@mail.gmail.com>
On 03/28/2017 03:34 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> That all makes sense in isolation, but shouldn't something have
> at least warned that "&h.size" isn't actually a uint32_t* in
> the sense of being something you can validly pass to a
> function that takes a uint32_t* ?
That's a long-known bug in the implementation of packed data. Yes, it should,
but it doesn't.
r~
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-27 21:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-27 17:34 [Qemu-devel] packed structures and unaligned accesses (sparc) Peter Maydell
2017-03-27 21:43 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2017-03-27 22:13 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2017-03-28 10:19 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2017-03-28 10:23 ` Peter Maydell
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