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From: davison%drivax@uunet.uu.net (Wayne Davison)
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Subject: Re: trn thread files are not portable
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Date: 9 Aug 90 18:01:07 GMT
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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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