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Re: sparc 32-bit dirent broken
- From: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>
- To: neleai at seznam dot cz
- Cc: fweimer at redhat dot com, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:36:42 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: sparc 32-bit dirent broken
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From: Ondřej Bílka <neleai@seznam.cz>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 23:26:11 +0200
> Is adding largest C type alignment worth hassle? For io structures a
> buffer cause much bigger footprint that few bytes possibly wasted
> due of alignment.
I agree, but I know there are people here who would prefer we use
something that expresses clearly the requirement we are trying to
meet.