On 04/10/10 15:04 +0200, Carmelo AMOROSO wrote:
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> Hannu,
> I don't think that it is a good to force the alignment; we could need to
> write a test case that calls LTP_clone with an unaligned stack just to
> test the behavior of the clone implementation.
> 
> Likely, it should be useful to add a check inside the C lib clone
> implementation (arch specific) to protect against unaligned stack, but
> this is a different matter.
> 
> I would just leave the LTP_clone passing the argument to the clone as
> they came from the caller.
> 
> Regards,
> Carmelo
> 

Hi Carmelo,

you've got point, yes. I was just so worried about the fact that in ARM
architectures that previous eg clone02 failed due to alignment errors.
But your fix of course fixed that issue, and it gives as a possiblity
to make test case against alignment issues, quite right. 

br,
Hannu

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