Re: ipt_physdev.c alignment problems on parisc64

[Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 17 September 2003 03:23, David S. Miller wrote:
> But recall that there are other netfilter modules doing this
> "compare chars using cast to long" trick that need to be fixed
> too.

Well, acme hasn't reported any other issues. Perhaps Rusty had foresight about 
these possible issues and made sure alignment was good...
In which case I don't see any reason for altering his code.

> Also, adding attributes to user exported structures would need
> to be done _very_ carefully, as compilation when using such
> gcc extensions will fail when the user uses '-ansi' on the
> compiler command line.

Now why on Earth would I have to bother with some luser doing this? I'm not 
the slave of annoying users.

cheers,
Bart