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Date:      Wed, 29 May 2002 17:36:21 +0100
From:      Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys gpt.h
Message-ID:  <20020529173621.B11817@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20020529053653.GA306@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>; from marcel@xcllnt.net on Tue, May 28, 2002 at 10:36:53PM -0700
References:  <200205290258.g4T2wgF83137@freefall.freebsd.org> <9551.1022648961@critter.freebsd.dk> <20020529053653.GA306@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>

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On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 10:36:53PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> I see what you mean, but packing and unpacking is not the problem. It's
> sizeof() that's got it wrong. I don't quite understand why sizeof()
> would yield a size that's 4 bytes longer than the structure actually
> is. It smells like a gcc bug, but I assume for now I'm just missing
> something.

It's required for correct alignment of the uint64_t members when you
create an array of the struct.

Tony.
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