On 14 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > + * Scoreboard structures could be changed in the future such that > + proper alignment is not maintained, leading to segfaults on > + some systems. Cliff posted a patch to deal with this issue but > + later recanted. See this message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > + Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203011354090.16457-200000@deepthought > + .cs.virginia.edu> > +
I don't know what it was that made me convince myself it was broken. I need to go back and look more carefully. It was something like I thought that aligning an array was wrong because the elements of the array would be out of whack, but that doesn't seem right because the compiler should align an individual struct correctly so that it can be placed back to back with ITSELF and maintain alignment. It's placing structures back to back with other structures that could cause headaches. So the patch could well be correct, though as you say, right now the sizes are magically correct anyway. I'll look into this more closely as soon as I can. --Cliff -------------------------------------------------------------- Cliff Woolley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charlottesville, VA
