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Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:41:43 +1100
From: "Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 8c padding problem
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easy.  don't do it.  marshall it or go insane.

guess why the IP stack is so ambivalent.  it's good.

happy solstice recover.

brucee

On Dec 22, 2007 3:34 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> > excuse me. that's what hjdicks was for .. and it's called pack. ok.
> >
> > abuse them or yourselfs for using such code.
> >
> > brucee
>
> what's the alternative?  what i can think of is either
> cutting & pasting the repeated elements or not using
> unnamed structures at all.  unfortunately, that results
> in awful code like so
>
>        h = (hdr*)buf;
>        p = (proto*)h->data;
>        e = (subprobo*)p->data;
>
> - erik
>