[PATCH] Fix misaligned access accessing HEADER struct in res_query.c

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Wed Jun 15 11:56:00 GMT 2016


On 06/15/2016 01:42 PM, John David Anglin wrote:
> The attached patch fixes BZ 20243.  The HEADER struct needs to be packed so that
> byte accesses are used.  Tested using glibc 2.22-11on hppa.  Please install if okay.

> -} HEADER;
> +} __attribute__ ((packed)) HEADER;

Unfortunately, we cannot apply this simple fix because this is a public 
header, and the above changes alignment of the struct.  It would also 
have to be __attribute__ ((__packed__)).

Florian



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