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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:52:02 -0500
From: Richard Pennington <rich@...nware.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Possible ARM struct stat problem.

On Monday, June 25, 2012 10:50:02 PM Rich Felker wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 04:15:25AM +0200, John Spencer wrote:
> > >I'm not entirely opposed to putting the explicit padding in there,
> > >since this is an arch-specific structure anyway, but I think you
> > >should check your compiler. The same issue might come up elsewhere and
> > >might not be so easy to work around.
> > 
> > please apply the explicit padding.
> 
> All this would have done is hide the issue that you're using the wrong
> ABI (oabi instead of eabi) and make it harder to find the more-subtle
> resulting bugs later (mildly different calling convention and
> padding).
> 
> Rich
I agree with Rich on this one.

-Rich

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