[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: The fixes11 mmap patch doesn't respect data alignment on some architectures

[From: Philip Van Hoof]

On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 19:23 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> While the x86 handles unaligned access, ARM doesn't. The patch will not
> work on architectures that don't handle unaligned access.
> 
> I will try to fix it, but I don't have a lot experience in this field.

Second attempt to introduce data alignment. It's still getting Killed on
the Nokia 770 ARM device. Regretfully I don't have a debugger for that
device.

In my hexeditor it looks like all of the summary file is now aligned to
4 bytes (or at least something is aligned to 4 bytes).

There's also no dmesg message on the device when the kill happens.

Could use some assistance from an expert in this field ;-) (I'm not)

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