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Subject: Re: PATCH: struct heap 64-bit
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From: Tanaka Akira <akr@jaist.ac.jp>
Date: 05 Jan 2000 01:41:10 +0900
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In article <20000104105536.A8967@dman.com>,
  Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org> writes:

> This just gets rid of the overcompensation altogether.
> Incidentally, this solves the bus error problem I was
> experiencing on 64-bit SPARC Linux.

I think gcc extension should be used if it is available.

struct heap {
  ...
}
#if defined(PAD_64_BIT) && defined(__GNUC__)
  __attribute__ ((aligned (8)))
#endif
;
-- 
Tanaka Akira