From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756803Ab2BBP7u (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:59:50 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:30094 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756158Ab2BBP7t (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:59:49 -0500 From: Aldy Hernandez To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jakub Jelinek , Torvald Riegel , Jan Kara , LKML , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, dsterba@suse.cz, ptesarik@suse.cz, rguenther@suse.de, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Memory corruption due to word sharing References: <20120201151918.GC16714@quack.suse.cz> <1328118174.15992.6206.camel@triegel.csb> <20120201194025.GG6148@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz> <20120201201631.GW18768@tyan-ft48-01.lab.bos.redhat.com> Reply-to: aldyh@redhat.com Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:58:33 -0600 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Wed, 1 Feb 2012 12:44:05 -0800") Message-ID: <874nv9qlau.fsf@houston.quesejoda.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds writes: > Seriously - is there any real argument *against* just using the base > type as a hint for access size? If I'm on the hook for attempting to fix this again, I'd also like to know if there are any arguments against using the base type.