Re: [GNUnet-developers] sizeof HELO Message wrong

[Blake Matheny]

I thought Rick had used gnunet under sparc-64?

-Blake

Whatchu talkin' 'bout, Willis?
> Am Freitag, 25. Juli 2003 14:23 schrieben Sie:
> > Christian Grothoff wrote:
> > >Hmm. Best reason I can see would be the compiler doing 64-bit alignment.
> > > But if they are using a binary package that works on other systems, I'll
> > > declare myself puzzled. The check just tests if the compiler packed the
> > > struct the way we expect it to, which is without any holes.
> >
> > That "not too many more details" is:
> >
> > $uname -a
> > Linux skye 2.4.19 #5 Fri May 9 20:48:01 EDT 2003 alpha GNU/Linux
> >
> > It is very possible that the compiler did 64-bit alignment. :-)
> >
> > Have anybody used gnunet on a 64-bit processor ever?
> 
> Not to my knowledge. And fixing all structs to be 64-bit aligned would break 
> the protocol (they are 32-bit aligned, which was pretty much as much as we 
> could reasonably do). Now gcc can be tweaked to align things at 32-bit 
> boundaries (definitely with gcc extensions like __attribute__(packed) or 
> something like that), but I wonder if there's not a better way to do this 
> (without making the code too ugly).
> 
> Either way, the alignment is definitely to blame if this is a 64 bit 
> architecture. Can you check if there are any obscure gcc flags that may help? 
> Otherwise we'll have to do something to the code...
> 
> Christian
> 
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