Re: Bug#44654: dpkg: seg faults w/2.3.17; problem traced to sysinfo()
Jim Gettys (jg@pa.dec.com)
Fri, 10 Sep 1999 06:43:53 -0700
> Sender: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> From: Chris Lawrence <lawrencc@debian.org>
> This explicitly includes the alignment in the structure, which IMHO is
> a good thing. Yes, I know _f[] looks ugly. Oh, well. (I assume
> unsigned short is usually 32 bits on a 64-bit platform, so the
> alignment will be fixed here... otherwise, damned if I know how to
> portably fix the problem.)
>
Poor assumption:
On 64 bit systems, unsigned short is usually 16 bits. Unsigned int
is 32 bits; unsigned long is 64 bits.
- Jim
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