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Date:      Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:55:57 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r212886 - head/sbin/growfs
Message-ID:  <20100920163758.A788@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <201009200420.o8K4KtKn026514@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201009200420.o8K4KtKn026514@svn.freebsd.org>

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On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> Log:
>  Unbreak the build on strong-aligned architectures (arm, ia64).
>  Casting from (char *) to (struct ufs1_dinode *) changes the
>  alignment requirement of the pointer and GCC does not know that
>  the pointer is adequately aligned (due to malloc(3)), and warns
>  about it. Cast to (void *) first to by-pass the check.

A previous version in which the pointer (iobuf) the correct type to
begin with was better.  It used to have type void *, but now has type
caddr_t (whose existence is a bug), in order to abuse caddr_t by
assuming that it is char * to do pointer arithmetic on it in 1 place
(iobuf + sblock.fs_cgsize).  The 7 other places where iobuf is used
only assume that caddr_t is a pointer (or perhaps a [u]intptr_t).

growfs has no other instances of caddr_t.

Bruce



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