Re: gcc bug causes parted to write bad GPT entries

[Andreas Dilger]

On Mar 19, 2002  15:36 -0600, address@hidden wrote:
> Legacy_mbr, in particular, does structure member dereferences that are most
> certainly not dword-aligned (there's a u16 'unknown' field in there prior to
> the start of the partition table proper).

This will break on non-x86 architectures (they will get a SIGBUS or so).
You need to access unaligned fields as bytes and store them in a local
variable, or memcpy the whole thing into an aligned version of the struct.

Cheers, Andreas
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