[PATCH] doc: announce changes in structure alignments for UBSan
Bruce Richardson
bruce.richardson at intel.com
Wed Jul 9 14:49:08 CEST 2025
On Wed, Jul 09, 2025 at 02:40:22PM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> As part of the effort to limit undefined behaviors in DPDK code, some
> structure alignments revealed not to be accurate enough.
> At the moment two structures have been identified but others may be
> found while running more parts of DPDK with UBSan.
>
> Though the calling code can explicitly request alignment,
> we would prefer to put the alignment constraints as part of the
> structure definition itself.
>
> Such changes are ABI breakages.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
> ---
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
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