On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Andres Kroonmaa wrote:
> I wonder what is meant by "needs" or "required" here. Will program
> brake miserably when alignment is not met, or is it just a matter
> of running slower? That is: how fatal is failing to align?
It can be as fatal as it gets: the application is killed. Same for
mis-aligned integers, btw. IIRC, Squid used to have that bug when
parsing an ICP message from a raw buffer would kill the process.
Alex.
Received on Thu Oct 19 2000 - 09:54:26 MDT
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