alpha net-yy test failures due to port decode errors

[Masatake YAMATO]

On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 23:20:12 -0500, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 03 Mar 2015 12:48, Masatake YAMATO wrote:
>> On Tue, 3 Mar 2015 03:13:11 +0300, "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv at altlinux.org> wrote:
>> >> > --- a/socketutils.c
>> >> > +++ b/socketutils.c
>> >> > @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ receive_responses(const int fd, const unsigned long inode,
>> >> >  		  const char *proto_name,
>> >> >  		  bool (* parser) (const char *, const void *, int, const unsigned long))
>> >> >  {
>> >> > -	static char buf[8192];
>> >> > +	static long buf[8192 / sizeof(long)];
>> >> >  	struct sockaddr_nl nladdr = {
>> >> >  		.nl_family = AF_NETLINK
>> >> >  	};
>> 
>> ??? What does thie mean?
>> The addresses of long buf and char buf differs?
> 
> afaict, it only changes alignment
> -mike

alignment of buf itself?