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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:35:36 -0600
From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] am I nuts? does 8c support packed structs?
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On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, boyd, rounin wrote:

> iirc tcp is pretty much 16 bit aligned.  failing that you can do 32 bit tricks.

yeah but the point the person was trying to make, which surprised me, was
that in this New Era it is seen to be impossible to create correct tcp
headers without __packed__.

ron