[U-Boot] [PATCH] part_efi: fix protective_mbr struct allocation

Albert ARIBAUD albert.u.boot at aribaud.net
Wed Feb 12 17:30:51 CET 2014


Hi Hector,

On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 17:24:26 +0100, "Palacios, Hector"
<Hector.Palacios at digi.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately this is causing unaligned access in my i.MX6.
> I'm specifically passing the -mno-unaligned-access when building this file so I guess 
> it has to do with the macro and the packed structure.

I don't think this is due to packed structures, because
-mno-unaligned-access tells the compiler that unaligned fields in
packed structures should be accesses by breaking the unaligned access
into smaller aligned ones, so this would not cause an alignment abort.

What can cause an alignment abort despite -mno-unaligned-access is
dereferencing a badly aligned pointer, and this is probably what
happens here.

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.


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