[parisc-linux] gcc-3.[02] alignment problem

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 06:00, Randolph Chung wrote:
> Compiling the linux kernel (2.4.19-rc1-ac5) with hppa64-linux-gcc 
> (3.0.4 or 3.2) gives:
> 
> tausq@a500:~/src/linux-2.4.19-rc1/net/ipv4$ hppa64-linux-gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/home/tausq/src/linux-2.4.19-rc1/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -D__linux__ -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -mno-space-regs -mfast-indirect-calls -mdisable-fpregs -ffunction-sections -march=2.0 -mschedule=8000   -nostdinc -I /usr/lib/gcc-lib/hppa64-linux/3.0/include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=tcp_diag  -c -o tcp_diag.o tcp_diag.c
> {standard input}: Assembler messages:
> {standard input}:138: Error: Field not properly aligned [8] (44).
> {standard input}:138: Error: Invalid operands

The pa-risc tree has a disgusting hack to work around this. Its one of
the bits I have down in the "vomit grade" pile of bits to look into
during the rest of the merge.