Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/12] configure: disable unaligned access warning on x86 arch

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 05:32:54PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 8 January 2018 at 17:29, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  configure | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
> 
> This doesn't seem like the right approach to me. We
> want this sort of thing to be a warning/error on x86,
> because that's the host that everybody actually uses
> to develop with. If they only show up on non-x86
> hosts then the result will be a lot more bounced
> pull requests because of only-non-x86 warnings.
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM

And we can't be sure the compiler won't be doing something tricky by
assuming alignment in the future.

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