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Marcel Moolenaar ae04949bff Fix unaligned memory accesses on Alpha and possible other platforms.
By using a pointer to struct dos_partition, we implicitly tell the
compiler that the pointer is 4-bytes aligned, even though we know
that's not the case. The fact that we only dereference the pointer
to access a byte-wide field (field dp_ptyp) is not a guarantee that
the compiler will in fact use a byte-wide load. On some platforms
it's more efficient to use long word or quad word loads and use
bit-shifting and bit-masking to get the intended byte. On those
platforms an misaligned load will be the result.
The fix is to use byte-wide pointer arithmetic based on sizeof() and
offsetof() to avoid invalid casts which avoids that the compiler
makes invalid assumptions.

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MFC after: 1 week
2006-06-04 20:26:13 +00:00
bin Fix the wording about the blocksize (-b) parameter. The existing 2006-05-10 20:32:57 +00:00
contrib This commit was generated by cvs2svn to compensate for changes in r159063, 2006-05-30 07:46:52 +00:00
crypto Introduce a namespace munging hack inspired by NetBSD to avoid polluting 2006-05-13 13:47:45 +00:00
etc Since NIS is an RPC based service, add a note that when adjusting access 2006-06-01 14:14:58 +00:00
games Layers are for cakes, not for software. 2006-05-28 06:16:15 +00:00
gnu Clean the product of patch(1). 2006-04-10 09:00:19 +00:00
include Add size_t declaration 2006-05-22 05:57:39 +00:00
kerberos5 Bump library majro version for gethostbyaddr(3). 2006-05-21 15:15:21 +00:00
lib Remove unused member. 2006-06-03 00:19:40 +00:00
libexec *thwack*! all the world's not i386. 2006-03-29 12:29:01 +00:00
release Swing URLs to security advisories over to security.FreeBSD.org. 2006-05-31 23:49:51 +00:00
rescue Pass -DCRUNCH down to standard targets in individual makefiles. 2006-04-10 09:32:50 +00:00
sbin Fix "mount -u -o ro". 2006-06-02 17:53:46 +00:00
secure Add a manual dependency on ssh_namespace.h. 2006-05-13 21:38:16 +00:00
share Document more bits. 2006-06-03 23:39:13 +00:00
sys Fix unaligned memory accesses on Alpha and possible other platforms. 2006-06-04 20:26:13 +00:00
tools Output directory has gone, remove it from Makefile. 2006-05-31 11:22:15 +00:00
usr.bin Increase the field widths of flt (total number of page faults), fr (pages 2006-06-03 20:34:56 +00:00
usr.sbin - Fix markup 2006-06-04 15:39:19 +00:00
COPYRIGHT Happy new year, a little late 2006-01-15 22:06:10 +00:00
LOCKS Document commit constraints for RELENG_6_*. 2006-01-13 06:51:43 +00:00
MAINTAINERS Remove stale entries. 2006-06-03 01:52:11 +00:00
Makefile Connect the kernel subsystem API documentation generation framework to 2006-05-26 18:10:06 +00:00
Makefile.inc1 Connect the kernel subsystem API documentation generation framework to 2006-05-26 18:10:06 +00:00
ObsoleteFiles.inc Belatedly add usr/share/man/man4.sab.4.gz. The sab(4) driver was 2006-05-20 00:30:06 +00:00
README Add a note explaining what the rescue/ directory is for. 2006-03-01 20:14:55 +00:00
UPDATING Note that an old adjkerntz is not really usable after the recent 2006-05-15 15:47:45 +00:00

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