sshd broken on arm?
Willem Jan Withagen
wjw at digiware.nl
Fri Jan 25 05:02:15 PST 2008
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> It is an array of char, and char has no special alignment requirement.
>
> The bug is in the code, which uses pointer aliasing in a way that is
> strictly speaking legal but which places responsibility for alignment
> issues squarely in the code and not the compiler.
This is exactly what I ment by 'obfuscated code' and a liberal language
like 'C'.
--WjW
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