Re: [9fans] structure allocation.

["Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>]

i still like hjdicks  it is obscure enough that no-one would think it's
a feature (or guess it).  it was required because we had a large
slab of 3rd-party code that assumed it could read packets off the
wire (assuming correct endian) and do no marshaling.

#pragam pack

looks like a feature.

i was there when it happened (after a nice italian meal).

ken asked "Do i really have to do this?"

P: Yes, there's buckets of code that rely on it.

K: *some expression of disbelief*

P: well hj are just dicks

done deal

it also turned out to be important for inferno on machines with
greater than 32 bit alignment requirements.  the 64 bit mips
is an example.  took but a recompile with hjdicks in the right
place (it takes an optional alignment parameter).  same with
the ps2 which has 128 bit issues.

thanks for telling me that it has been changed.

brucee

On 3/8/06, geoff@collyer.net <geoff@collyer.net> wrote:
> I was implicitly referring to C compilers.  Heck, Pascal had packed
> data in the early 1970s, possibly even the late 1960s.