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Article #2285Re: trn thread files are not portable
From: Wayne Davison
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 1990 18:01
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 1990 18:01
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del@thrush.mlb.semi.harris.com (Don Lewis) wrote:
> The trn thread files are not portable between host architectures.
> Because of structure padding differences, they are not even portable
> between Sun 3's and 4's.
Structure padding is a problem at present, but architectures that differ in
byte-order are fully supported.
I only found out about the structure-padding problem from one of my Sun beta
sites this week. None of them had previously tried a Sun 4 installation,
unfortunately. I'm working on a fix.
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