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Date:      Wed, 29 May 2002 07:09:21 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys gpt.h 
Message-ID:  <9551.1022648961@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 May 2002 19:58:41 PDT." <200205290258.g4T2wgF83137@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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In message <200205290258.g4T2wgF83137@freefall.freebsd.org>, Marcel Moolenaar w
rites:
>marcel      2002/05/28 19:58:41 PDT
>
>  Modified files:
>    sys/sys              gpt.h 
>  Log:
>  Add attribute packed to struct gpt_hdr to avoid unwanted padding at
>  the end of the struct to make it an integral number of "longs" on
>  64-bit architectures. The size of the struct must be 92, not 96.

I think the correct thing to do would be to add a pack/unpack function
like it is already done in geom_bsd, geom_sun and geom_mbr.  That way
the alignment and wordsize of the local platform doesn't matter.

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