Re: improve compat handling for the i386 u64 alignment quirk v2

2020-08-06 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Hi all, > > the i386 ABI is a little special in that it uses less than natural > alignment for 64-bit integer types (u64 and s64), and a significant > amount of our compat handlers deals with just that. Unfortunately > there is no good way to check for this

improve compat handling for the i386 u64 alignment quirk v2

2020-07-31 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Hi all, the i386 ABI is a little special in that it uses less than natural alignment for 64-bit integer types (u64 and s64), and a significant amount of our compat handlers deals with just that. Unfortunately there is no good way to check for this specific quirk at runtime, similar how