Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 07:16:25 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: bde@zeta.org.au Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, yar@comp.chem.msu.su, jkoshy@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, phk@phk.freebsd.dk, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/include ar.h Message-ID: <20061118.071625.-432825382.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20061118214618.U15111@delplex.bde.org> References: <20061117201432.X11101@delplex.bde.org> <20061117.105304.1769993002.imp@bsdimp.com> <20061118214618.U15111@delplex.bde.org>
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Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes:
: On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, M. Warner Losh wrote:
:
: > In message: <20061117201432.X11101@delplex.bde.org>
: > Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes:
: > : For that the comment should be something like:
: > :
: > : __packed; /* Align (sic) to work around bugs on arm (*). */
: > :
: > : but I doubt that arm is that broken.
: > :
: > : (*) See this thread for more details.
: >
: > But they aren't bugs.
:
: Er, this thread gived the details of why they are bugs.
I read the thread. They gave reasons why this broke the assumptions
we've made til now. These assumptions weren't allowed by the
standard. Hence my contention that they aren't bugs.
Warner
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