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Date:      Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:05:10 -0700 (MST)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au
Cc:        keramida@ceid.upatras.gr, arch@FreeBSD.org, stefanf@FreeBSD.org, cperciva@FreeBSD.org, des@des.no
Subject:   Re: [releng_6 tinderbox] failure on sparc64/sparc64
Message-ID:  <20060213.210510.89039143.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060214083530.K22079@epsplex.bde.org>
References:  <43F04494.4030900@freebsd.org> <20060213.094336.118368793.imp@bsdimp.com> <20060214083530.K22079@epsplex.bde.org>

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In message: <20060214083530.K22079@epsplex.bde.org>
            Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes:
: > It won't matter given how I'm going to fix this problem...
: 
: Why not just access the object as an array of unsigned chars as someone
: wrote?  Write it out 1 unsigned char at a time for the simple version.
: This avoids the complications.

Because it has to be fed to the hardware 4 bytes at a time.

Warner



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