Bug#44654: dpkg: seg faults w/2.3.17; problem traced to sysinfo()

[Alan Cox]

> Ok, I forgot about 64bit machines. BTW also your '20-' is obviously
> _wrong_ because you are supposing that sizeof(long)-sizeof(short) is 2.

Good point

> +     unsigned long totalbig __attribute__((packed)); /* Total big memory 
> size */
> +     unsigned long freebig __attribute__((packed));  /* Available big memory 
> size */

That doesnt work on the ARM3

The best I have so far is

        struct _foo
        {
                ...
                ...
        }

        struct real_foo
        {
                ...
                ...
                char pad [64-sizeof(struct _foo)] __attribute((packed));
        }