64-bit alignment problems.

[Ken Murchison]

Andy Fiddaman wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Ken Murchison wrote:
> ; This patch tries to force the entire buffer to be aligned, rather than
> ; aligning each 64-bit field individually.  Don't know if this will work or not.
> 
> The concept seems to work fine. There are some other places that
> the same trick needs to be done - mailbox_expunge() and restore_expunged()
> for example.
> 
> I adapted it slightly (see attachment) to use a union to conserve heap
> space and a macro given the number of places it was proving necessary.

Good point.  I'm wondering if we need the struct at all, and can just 
use a union.


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Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University