Paul Koning writes:
> Nor is it the only place; the one we shifted to in the message I saved 
> is the Ethernet header.  Linux is full of protocol headers of all
> flavors encoded as structs; many of those are suspect and may be
> broken. 

I know about the ones in the kernel.  It's the ones in things like glibc,
which IMHO shouldn't be there that I'm worried about.

Yes, ok, it's right to pack a structure if it relates to external data,
but not otherwise.
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