Hello William!

Sat 2003-08-16 05:01, William McBrine (1:106/2000) wrote to Bo Simonsen:

 BS>> I guess it does the same to pack the index structure!

 WM> Not really -- my way is portable; "__attribute__ ((packed))" is
 WM> gcc- specific. My way also eliminates little-endian dependencies,
 WM> and is compatible with 64-bit systems with 8-byte longs. I realize
 WM> that the rest of Maximus isn't clean that way yet, but one has to
 WM> start somewhere. ;-) 

You have a point!

Regards,
         Bo

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