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Date:      Sat, 26 Jun 2004 20:35:56 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexander Kabaev <kan@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libpam/modules/pam_radius pam_radius.c
Message-ID:  <20040627033556.GC43829@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040625123827.GA55913@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200406250154.i5P1sQcp072094@repoman.freebsd.org> <xzp659g0ywd.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20040625120329.GB37003@ip.net.ua> <xzp1xk325pg.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20040625123827.GA55913@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 12:38:27PM +0000, Alexander Kabaev wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 02:16:27PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> > Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > > On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 11:28:50AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> > > > Alexander Kabaev <kan@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > > > >   Log:
> > > > >   Remove the use of cast as lvalue.
> > > > This trades one style bug for another (missing space before *), breaks
> > > > the build on 64-bit platforms, and violates maintainership.
> > > Ah, so this commit is responsible for a cross-build breakage...
> > 
> > No, this one currently only breaks Alpha because we apparently don't
> > enforce alignment requirements on other platforms.
> > 
> It definitely worked for amd64 world, which I guess does not have such
> strict alignment requirements.

Not at all -- AMD64 is an x86 platform first and fore most.  That means
no traps or exceptions on misalignments like for Alpha and other RISC
platforms.  There is of course a performance degradation on AMD64, but
its the same as misalignments for x86 32-bit.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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