md5sum makes unaligned word accesses...

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Fri May 12 22:21:06 UTC 2006


On Friday 12 May 2006 16:57, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Friday 12 May 2006 12:43 am, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Thursday 11 May 2006 12:22, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > But it doesn't on any other platform.
> >
> > alignment issues arent arm-specific
>
> Yeah, but do we support another platform yet that cares?
>
> I'm all for fixing it.  I just don't want to penalize systems that don't
> need the fix.

of course we do

more systems care about alignment issues than not

it's just that most systems will automatically clean up alignment bugs at the 
kernel level so no one usually notices

so, we're already penalizing systems, we just dont notice ;)
-mike



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