Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> (2021-05-20): > The real world corner cases are if you are using a 32-bit arm binary > on a 64-bit binary, and if you are using a sparc64 system (not an > officially supported Debian arch). I'm not sure if misaligned pointer > accesses are allowed in arm-32 kernel code, but it's definitely not > supported on sparc64, so there is also a kernel-side patch which > needed for those platforms that will be in 5.13 (landing upstream in > 2-3 weeks). Alignment on arm is “fun”. Again, not an expert, but the summary here matches my vague recollection: https://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo#Alignment Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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