From 53f7598998b1860a69c51243b5d2e34623c6bf60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lasse Collin Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 21:35:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Fix aliasing issue in physmem.h. --- src/common/physmem.h | 19 ++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/common/physmem.h b/src/common/physmem.h index a0e72c8e..c9d50394 100644 --- a/src/common/physmem.h +++ b/src/common/physmem.h @@ -57,17 +57,18 @@ physmem(void) #elif defined(HAVE_PHYSMEM_SYSCTL) int name[2] = { CTL_HW, HW_PHYSMEM }; - unsigned long mem; - size_t mem_ptr_size = sizeof(mem); - if (!sysctl(name, 2, &mem, &mem_ptr_size, NULL, NULL)) { + union { + unsigned long ul; + unsigned int ui; + } mem; + size_t mem_ptr_size = sizeof(mem.ul); + if (!sysctl(name, 2, &mem.ul, &mem_ptr_size, NULL, NULL)) { // Some systems use unsigned int as the "return value". // This makes a difference on 64-bit boxes. - if (mem_ptr_size != sizeof(mem)) { - if (mem_ptr_size == sizeof(unsigned int)) - ret = *(unsigned int *)(&mem); - } else { - ret = mem; - } + if (mem_ptr_size == sizeof(mem.ul)) + ret = mem.ul; + else if (mem_ptr_size == sizeof(mem.ui)) + ret = mem.ui; } #elif defined(_WIN32)