On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, David Howells wrote:
> Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > * sizeof(*ptr) should be one of 1, 2, 4, 8
>
> Should we give an error if someone tries passing a 1-byte-sized memory
> location
> to get/put_unaligned()? I suspect it might be best to reduce to a trivial
> direct assignment in that case.
Note that in some cases, you have different architectures having different
sizes, and it could potentially be the case that one architecture has a
1-byte thing, and another has a 2-byte thing.
It's unlikely to be an issue for single-byte cases, but it definitely
happens for other equivalent things (ie "get_user()" often has 2 vs 4-byte
accesses, and obviously the 4- vs 8-byte thing through 32/64-bit values
depending on the size of the machine).
So at least in _theory_ it's quite possible that a single-byte access can
make sense, simply because the size might depend on a config option.
Linus
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