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From: C H Forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] am I nuts? does 8c support packed structs?
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:54:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <24a06b9b5cbf2406d50238e207618eaf@vitanuova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0410221036440.15945@linux.site>

>>but it's not there now, right? 

if you apply the diffs i gave in the email to the version of /sys/src/cmd/8c/swt.c on sources, against
which i had diffed, and recompile your copy, you will (should) then have it.

>>and I have to know, what's the whole hj thing? 

it's somewhere in the 9fans archive, but H&J (Harris & Jeffries i think) did protocol implementations
that relied on that effect extensively. oh here it is:

	...
	From: "Bruce Ellis" <brucee@chunder.com>
	Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 22:47:40 +1000

	pragmatism and a silly discussion over dinner.
	hj were dicks for assuming that they could
	lay out structs in an architecture independant way.
	we had to live with it.



  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-22 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-22 15:26 Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-22 15:30 ` Russ Cox
2004-10-22 15:49   ` C H Forsyth
2004-10-22 16:37     ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-22 16:54       ` C H Forsyth [this message]
2004-10-22 21:13         ` Bruce Ellis
2004-10-22 21:00           ` Charles Forsyth
2004-10-22 16:51     ` Russ Cox
2004-10-22 17:27       ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-22 17:20     ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-22 17:28       ` Russ Cox
2004-10-22 17:30         ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-22 17:29       ` jmk
2004-10-22 17:31         ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-22 17:50           ` Brantley Coile
2004-10-22 18:32         ` C H Forsyth
2004-10-22 18:14       ` Charles Forsyth
2004-10-22 19:25       ` boyd, rounin
2004-10-22 19:35         ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-22 19:38           ` boyd, rounin

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