Re: [linuxsh-dev] Re: bad alignment fixup

[Philipp R. <pr...@pa...>]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:36:12PM -0800, Bryan Rittmeyer wrote:
> Philipp Rumpf wrote:
> 
> > gas warns about unaligned .longs.  gcc should never generate unaligned
> > accesses unless you use weird casting or assembler code.
> 

> Basically, I think the problem was with code like this:

That code definitely should compile and work fine without causing unaligned
accesses.

> I will test that exact snippet on the SH4 and see if we are still having
> problems. If we are, I guess it's due to the linker either not aligning
> structtwo or not aligning boom within structtwo?

s/linker/compiler/.   It would be a GCC bug, yes.

> Just to make sure--when a process catches, say, a SIGSEGV and hasn't
> installed a special handler for it, it's up to the shell to display the
> termination message?

yes.