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Re: [9fans] plan9ports and freebsd 4.x

>>you're just mad because they didn't put hjdicks in C99.

that reminds me that, prompted by an aside that brucee made
last time hjdicks came up (so to speak),
i had a quick look then at the __packed attribute (or whatever it was)
that gcc implemented, on a few non-x86 platforms.
it seemed to me that it didn't implement it
properly either.  in particular, on architectures on which
alignment traps might or will occur for certain unaligned
accesses, the code generated made no
attempt to avoid them.  neither does ?[acl] as it happens,
so at least we're completely compatible with gcc in one thing.