Recent glibc locale changes on ia64.

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Thu Sep 7 21:40:00 GMT 2000


"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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