Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 16:03:34 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au Subject: Re: EGCS breaks what(1) Message-ID: <199904060603.QAA18049@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Alternately, we could jimmy around with the current hack, and prefix it >with 4 NULs, and see what happened. Sorry, I haven't tested this idea, as >I've not yet made the EGCS jump. egcs aligns long (>= about 28 bytes) strings to 32-byte boundaries. This adds up to 27 NULs to sccsid[] depending on the alignment of sccsidp[]. Aligning long strings to 32-byte boundaries is a pessimisation in kernels (because it makes poor locality poorer), especially on 486's where the cache line size is 16. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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