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Re: Unaligned Accesses (was Re: How to use silicon)

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From: Nicholas J. Simicich
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1989 12:24
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Another fairly common convention which limits the utility of
reordering structures is that of using a character vector as the last
element of the structure to simulate variable length records.  One
might have a character vector of MAXPATHLEN bytes, but only read or
write the number of bytes actually contained in the filename.


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From: njs@scifi.UUCP (Nicholas J. Simicich)
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Subject: Re: Unaligned Accesses (was Re: How to use silicon)
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