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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Size of struct not same on Ultrix as on v7
Message-ID: <533@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 17:37:05 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 25 17:37:05 1986
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In article <258@cirl.UUCP> das@cirl.UUCP writes:

>... We are thus in the process of porting programs written on v7
>to Ultrix.  One major problem has been that struct's appear not to
>be the same size when compiled on Ultrix as they are when compiled
>on v7.  This appears to be true for 4.2bsd as well.

Welcome to the wonderful world of heterogeneity.  No one ever said
your structures would look the same.  If you want the data file to
contain a machine independent byte stream, you have to read and
write a machine independent byte stream.  There is no reliable
alternative.
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