gcc Make error (potential unaligned pointer value)

[naeemk]

While this has somewhat been addressed here, is turning off Werror the only option to get around this?

libtool: compile: gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"libusrsctp\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"libusrsctp\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"0.9.3.0\" "-DPACKAGE_STRING=\"libusrsctp 0.9.3.0\"" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE_URL=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"libusrsctp\" -DVERSION=\"0.9.3.0\" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 -DLT_OBJDIR=\".libs/\" -DSCTP_DEBUG=1 -DINET=1 -DINET6=1 -DHAVE_SOCKET=1 -DHAVE_INET_ADDR=1 -DHAVE_STDATOMIC_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_QUEUE_H=1 -DHAVE_NETINET_IP_ICMP_H=1 -DHAVE_SA_LEN=1 -DHAVE_SIN_LEN=1 -DHAVE_SIN6_LEN=1 -DHAVE_SCONN_LEN=1 -I. -DSCTP_PROCESS_LEVEL_LOCKS -DSCTP_SIMPLE_ALLOCATOR -D__Userspace__ -U__APPLE__ -D__Userspace_os_Darwin -g -O2 -std=c99 -Wno-deprecated-declarations -D__APPLE_USE_RFC_2292 -pedantic -Wall -Werror -g -O0 -MT netinet/libusrsctp_la-sctp_input.lo -MD -MP -MF netinet/.deps/libusrsctp_la-sctp_input.Tpo -c netinet/sctp_input.c -fno-common -DPIC -o netinet/.libs/libusrsctp_la-sctp_input.o netinet/sctp_input.c:1737:15: error: taking address of packed member 'time_entered' of class or structure 'sctp_state_cookie' may result in an unaligned pointer value [-Werror,-Waddress-of-packed-member]

                                                          `&cookie->time_entered,
                                                           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`

netinet/sctp_input.c:2489:10: error: taking address of packed member 'time_entered' of class or structure 'sctp_state_cookie' may result in an unaligned pointer value [-Werror,-Waddress-of-packed-member]

                                              `&cookie->time_entered, sctp_align_unsafe_makecopy,
                                               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`

2 errors generated. make[1]: *** [netinet/libusrsctp_la-sctp_input.lo] Error 1 make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

[tuexen]

I guess this has already been fixed upstream in sctplab@a37b2e8.

[rohitash123456]

error: taking address of packed member of 'struct sctp_stream_reset_out_request' may result in an unaligned pointer value [-Werror=address-of-packed-member]