[PATCH] C undefined behavior fix
Paul Mackerras
paulus@samba.org
Sun Jan 6 14:01:00 GMT 2002
dewar@gnat.com writes:
> <<* Given a pointer, I need a way to determine the address (as an int of
> the appropriate size) that the CPU will present to the MMU when I
> dereference that pointer.
> >>
>
> This is in general ill-defined, a compiler might generate code that sometimes
> does byte access to a particular byte, anmd sometimes gets the entire word
> in which the byte resides.
Do I need to try to specify more exactly what I need, then, or do
people generally understand what I was trying to say?
Paul.
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