Subject: Re: stdio FILE extension
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 10/19/2001 17:08:59
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
: So, really, I'd change _ub to be like this:
:
: union {
: struct __sbuf _ubu_ub;
: void *_ubu_intcookie;
: } _ub_u;
:
: to really insure that we break compilation of apps that use _ub.
...if so, please test that this change doesn't affect the sizeof(FILE) on
LP64, such as alpha. Because __sbuf is 96 bits on LP64, this *could* (but
not necessarily will) change alignment of the following struct element,
which is 32 bits wide.
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