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Fix unaligned access

This fixes an unaligned access during nscd communication.

Andreas.

2005-07-13  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@suse.de>

	* nscd/nscd_helper.c (get_mapping): Align control message buffer.

--- nscd/nscd_helper.c.~1.10.~	2005-02-23 11:25:53.000000000 +0100
+++ nscd/nscd_helper.c	2005-07-13 11:54:38.000000000 +0200
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ get_mapping (request_type type, const ch
   iov[0].iov_base = resdata;
   iov[0].iov_len = keylen;
 
-  char buf[CMSG_SPACE (sizeof (int))];
+  char buf[CMSG_SPACE (sizeof (int))] __attribute__ ((aligned));
   struct msghdr msg = { .msg_iov = iov, .msg_iovlen = 1,
 			.msg_control = buf, .msg_controllen = sizeof (buf) };
   struct cmsghdr *cmsg = CMSG_FIRSTHDR (&msg);

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