alignment bugs in prom_init

Sat Mar 4 01:39:10 EST 2006

Olaf Hering <olh at suse.de> writes:

> sp is 0x0023e784, val is at offset 120, which makes 0x0023e7fc. This
> address is casted to u32, which changes it to 0x0023e7f8.

Since when does casting to u32 cut off the low bits?

Andreas.

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