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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 14:24:02 -0800
From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no>
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On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 09:14:10PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> 
> However, a pid_t is an int, and sizeof int != sizeof long on Alpha.
> I'm not sure what will happen: will alignment rules cause gcc to add
> four bytes of padding before e_spare, conserving the size of struct
> kinfo_proc, or will struct kinfo_proc shrink by four bytes?

Padding will happen.

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