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Re: Recent glibc locale changes on ia64.

To: "David S. Miller" <davem at redhat dot com>
Subject: Re: Recent glibc locale changes on ia64.
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
Date: 07 Sep 2000 21:30:29 -0700
Cc: hjl at valinux dot com, ia64-tools at napali dot hpl dot hp dot com, libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <20000907173541.A586@valinux.com><m34s3rn1g7.fsf@otr.mynet.cygnus.com><200009080402.VAA06947@pizda.ninka.net>
Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)

"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> writes:

> >From the descriptions I've seen of this problem, it sounds a lot like
> yet another unaligned memory access problem in the locale code.

No.  You should not jump to such a conclusion without looking at the
code.  Every place where locale data is accessed word-wise is
protected with asserts to ensure alignment.

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