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Date:      Sat, 18 Nov 2006 07:16:25 -0700 (MST)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, yar@comp.chem.msu.su, jkoshy@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, phk@phk.freebsd.dk, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/include ar.h
Message-ID:  <20061118.071625.-432825382.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061118214618.U15111@delplex.bde.org>
References:  <20061117201432.X11101@delplex.bde.org> <20061117.105304.1769993002.imp@bsdimp.com> <20061118214618.U15111@delplex.bde.org>

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In message: <20061118214618.U15111@delplex.bde.org>
            Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes:
: On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: 
: > In message: <20061117201432.X11101@delplex.bde.org>
: >            Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes:
: > : For that the comment should be something like:
: > :
: > :  	__packed;	/* Align (sic) to work around bugs on arm (*). */
: > :
: > : but I doubt that arm is that broken.
: > :
: > : (*) See this thread for more details.
: >
: > But they aren't bugs.
: 
: Er, this thread gived the details of why they are bugs.

I read the thread.  They gave reasons why this broke the assumptions
we've made til now.  These assumptions weren't allowed by the
standard.  Hence my contention that they aren't bugs.

Warner



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