[Bug nptl/16549] pthread_cond_wait and pthread_cond_timedwait do not suspend the calling thread

["vinxxe at gmail dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16549

vinxxe at gmail dot com changed:

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--- Comment #8 from vinxxe at gmail dot com ---
I think (In reply to Rich Felker from comment #7)
> BTW I think this general class of bugs should be filed as a bug against GCC:
> misaligned packed structure members should have the fact that they're
> misaligned encoded as part of their type, so that applying the address-of
> operator to them yields a pointer type that's not compatible with the
> standard pointer type. Then,
> pthread_cond_wait(&packed_struct.misaligned_cond, ...) would yield a
> compile-time error due to incompatible pointer types. Likewise, the
> compile's format string warnings could catch the mismatched pointer type in
> scanf("%d", &packed_struct.foo).

I think this is a good point so I'll try to submit this bug to the GCC guys.

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