From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <24a06b9b5cbf2406d50238e207618eaf@vitanuova.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] am I nuts? does 8c support packed structs? From: C H Forsyth Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:54:03 +0100 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: f3f5e884-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >>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" 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.