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Date:      Sun, 23 Dec 2001 00:19:24 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely9.cicely.de>
Cc:        Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 4.5 alpha buyglet
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0112230018040.2582-100000@beppo>
In-Reply-To: <20011223080046.GB61241@cicely9.cicely.de>

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> 
> What else would you use for loading a 64 bit value?


Not if it's not aligned, and because the structure is fully enumerated, it
should be known to be unaligned.

> 
> If it starts with the second or later interface I would asume it's because
> several structs are concatenated in the sysctl output and read as one. If
> one of them is not n*8 bytes long you get an alignment offset. But as I
> don't have more debug output than posted on the list I can only guess.

The structures are all listed in if.h. 

Well- I must be wrong. I'm sure somebody would have fixed soemthing this
egregious.



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