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Automated merge with ssh://hg.atheme.org//hg/audacious
author William Pitcock <nenolod@atheme.org>
date Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:33:16 -0500
parents f922499e69bc (current diff) ac8d871b6075 (diff)
children fa676e489b64
files HACKING
diffstat 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/HACKING	Mon Mar 31 09:32:45 2008 -0500
+++ b/HACKING	Mon Mar 31 09:33:16 2008 -0500
@@ -55,7 +55,10 @@
   equal to some other platform.
 
   Some clever people might think that making struct "packed" via the
-  C packed qualifier would be a solution, but this will
+  C packed qualifier would be a solution, but this will cause problems
+  on platforms which require words to be aligned in memory - so it
+  "works" on x86 (with performance penalty), but will fail with bus error
+  on elsewhere.
 
   What you SHOULD do is read individual members of the struct one by one
   from the stream. This may sound bothersome, but by doing so, your code