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Subject: Re: [releng_6 tinderbox] failure on sparc64/sparc64
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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