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

[Andreas Schwab]

Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> writes:

> 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__)).

It also needs to work with other compilers.

Andreas.

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