Re: Important, Memory padding in kernel using 1byte

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 19 Nov 2001 09:56:24 +0000 (GMT)

> 32-bit (4 bytes) on IA32's. This cause lots of trouble when doing file
> system developments where a couple of data structures are not multiple
> of 4 bytes. This cause lots of errors, I think this should be notified

Its up to the fs developer to handle such data structures. You should also
be aware that misaligned references may fault and crash the kernel in some
cases on non x86 platforms

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