[Libvir] [PATCH] to run on IA64

[Atsushi SAKAI]

Hi,　Mark

It works fine.

Thanks
Atsushi SAKAI

Atsushi SAKAI <sakaia at jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> Hi, Mark
> 
> Thank you for your suggestion.
> I just compiled it sucessfuly.
> It should be work.
> I will do test it tomorrow.
> 
> Thanks
> Atsushi　SAKAI
> 
> Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 	Thanks for that ...
> > 
> > On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 13:51 +0900, Atsushi SAKAI wrote:
> > 
> > > > > -    ((struct sockaddr_in *)&ifr.ifr_addr)->sin_family = AF_INET;
> > > > > -    ((struct sockaddr_in *)&ifr.ifr_addr)->sin_addr   = inaddr;
> > > > > +    ((struct sockaddr_in *)((void *)&ifr.ifr_addr))->sin_family = AF_INET;
> > > > > +    ((struct sockaddr_in *)((void *)&ifr.ifr_addr))->sin_addr   = inaddr; 
> > 
> > > bridge.c: In function 'brSetInetAddr':
> > > bridge.c:344: warning: cast increases required alignment of target type
> > > bridge.c:345: warning: cast increases required alignment of target type
> > > bridge.c: In function 'brGetInetAddr':
> > > bridge.c:381: warning: cast increases required alignment of target type
> > 
> > 	Okay, my understanding of this is that:
> > 
> >   - The warning is caused by -Wcast-align
> > 
> >   - Our problem is that we're casting between pointers to struct 
> >     sockaddr and struct sockaddr_in, which look like
> > 
> >       struct sockaddr
> >       {
> >          unsigned short int sa_family;
> >       };
> > 
> >       struct sockaddr_in
> >       {
> >          unsigned short int sin_family;
> >          uint16_t sin_port;
> >          struct { uint32_t s_addr } sin_addr;
> >       };
> > 
> >   - Because of the uint32_t, struct sockaddr_in is required to be 
> >     aligned to a 4 byte boundary, whereas on ia64 struct sockaddr is 
> >     only required to be aligned to a 2 byte boundary
> > 
> >   - If we look at in the context of struct ifreq, though:
> > 
> >       struct ifreq
> >       {
> >           ....
> >           union {
> >               struct sockaddr ifru_addr;
> >               ....
> >               void *ifru_data;
> >           } ifr_ifru;
> >       };
> >       #define ifr_addr ifr_ifru.ifru_addr
> >       #define ifr_data ifr_ifru.ifru_data
> > 
> >     we see that because of the void pointer in the union, the struct 
> >     sockaddr is actually guaranteed to be aligned to 8 bytes and so the 
> >     warning can be ignored.
> > 
> >   - I'd prefer to avoid the void pointer cast as someone could come 
> >     along and wonder whether the cast is hiding a genuine problem.
> > 
> >   - So, I think I'll go ahead and do it this way instead:
> > 
> > -    ((struct sockaddr_in *)&ifr.ifr_addr)->sin_family = AF_INET;
> > -    ((struct sockaddr_in *)&ifr.ifr_addr)->sin_addr   = inaddr;
> > +    ((struct sockaddr_in *)&ifr.ifr_data)->sin_family = AF_INET;
> > +    ((struct sockaddr_in *)&ifr.ifr_data)->sin_addr   = inaddr; 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Mark.
> > 
> 
> 
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