Subject: re: alignment crash in v6 ipfilter when receiving on gif
To: Chris Ross <cross+netbsd@distal.com>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 07/11/2007 05:31:55 
this is almost certainly a bug in the code not the compiler.  there
are many many threads on gcc list about this sort of issue and the
end result is always to change the code.

krister explained this in a post several years ago:

	http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2003/08/11/0001.html

see the section "POINTER CASTS AND ALIGNMENT".


.mrg.