Dear Benoît Thébaudeau, In message <[email protected]> you wrote: > > > So how can the above not properly align the buffer? Is that a compiler bug > > then? > > > > btw. using ALLOC_CACHE_ALIGN_BUFFER will be safer were someone to change > > FEC_MAX_PKT_SIZE, the buffer would still be safe for cache flush/inval ops. > > I have encountered the same kind of alignment issue recently on something > else. > It looks like GCC for ARM just silently ignores the aligned attribute for auto > (stacked) variables.
I would really like to see the generated code from such a system, so we verify if this is indeed true, or if something else is causing such issues. Even if the suggested patch fixes the current problem, it leaves a bad feeling as it's only based on speculation about the causes. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] Brain off-line, please wait. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
