From: Horms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:23:03 +0900
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 04:43:49PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > > From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:26:46 -0800 > > > > > David Miller wrote: > > > > I think Elf64 notes very much would need 64-bit alignment, especially > > > > if there are u64 objects in there. Otherwise it would not be possible > > > > to directly dereference such objects without taking unaligned faults > > > > on several types of RISC cpus. > > > > > > > > > > That doesn't appear to have been a problem. > > > > We should be OK with the elf note header since n_namesz, n_descsz, and > > n_type are 32-bit types even on Elf64. But for the contents embedded > > in the note, I am not convinced that there are no potential issues. > > The interesting thing is that from my reading of the elf64 spec, > name ends up being 32 bit alightned, and desc ends up being 64 bit > aligned. Do you think the former could be a problem? I am thinking not > as its always a string. Right, it should be fine. _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
