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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] ureg alignment
Date: Fri,  9 May 2014 11:52:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bd4243e2ca850a6dd6980bfc1e3e7efe@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOw7k5iZdMyz=GuQPSMa_q4PxN7e4wLmEJOUY94Qae09_ofnaw@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri May  9 11:46:05 EDT 2014, charles.forsyth@gmail.com wrote:

> On 9 May 2014 16:29, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>
> > do you think that's perhaps worth leaving the
> > #define in as a temporary measure?
> >
>
> but if you're working with arm, the existing union is fine as it is, so why
> not just leave it?

the point is to make things like debugging arm, mips or 386 snapshots work on
amd64.  without a change, cross-platform debugging doesn't work in all cases.

- erik



      reply	other threads:[~2014-05-09 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-09 14:21 erik quanstrom
2014-05-09 14:28 ` Steven Stallion
2014-05-09 14:31   ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-09 14:56 ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-09 15:29   ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-09 15:45     ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-09 15:52       ` erik quanstrom [this message]

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