was used properly here, 64 bits for x86-64) pointed at, so invalid uses like referencing a 'char' array cannot currently be caught. Finally, the code with and without this patch relies heavily on the -fno-strict-aliasing compiler switch and I'm not certain this really is a good idea. In the light of all of this I'm sending this as RFC, as fixing the above might warrant a much bigger patch... Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar