Re: Patches fixing unaligned access in the networking code

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>>> More siginificant, to me, [...]
>> The Ethernet header is not helping us here...  [...]
> Use trailer encapsulation? :-)

Or, in case of desperation, you could even just acknowledge that what's
really going on is converting between an in-core data structure and a
serialization of that data structure, and actually convert between them
instead of depending on unwarranted chumminess with the compiler to
trust that it will lay out a particular struct in such a way that
overlaying it onto the buffer will match the serialization in question.

The more code I see that serializes and deserializes by overlaying
structs onto buffers, the more strongly I am forced to the conclusion
that it is a technique whose benefits are not worth its costs.

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