From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <671976ee6d83e428a5752b92be638ed1@brasstown.quanstro.net> References: <398e2886ff265a8839050c31589508d0@felloff.net> <671976ee6d83e428a5752b92be638ed1@brasstown.quanstro.net> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 15:23:29 +0000 Message-ID: From: Charles Forsyth To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=e89a8f234d45971638050ef9d18a Subject: Re: [9fans] telnet to port (and webfs debug) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 448573b8-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --e89a8f234d45971638050ef9d18a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 13 February 2015 at 14:13, erik quanstrom wrote: > does anybody remember what the hardware that inspired this was? > and why proper marshalling code couldn't be written. > It wasn't hardware: it was a large package of existing protocol code that needed to run but made too many assumptions about structure and structure member alignments, prompting the pragma. --e89a8f234d45971638050ef9d18a Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

= On 13 February 2015 at 14:13, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
does anybody remember what the hardwar= e that inspired this was?
and why proper marshalling code couldn't be written.=C2=A0

It wasn't hardware: it was a large package of existing= protocol code that needed to run
but made = too many assumptions about structure and structure member alignments,
=
prompting the pragma.
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