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From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Proc structure in 4.3
Message-ID: <487@brl-sem.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 18-Nov-86 14:34:45 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 18 14:34:45 1986
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References: <200@ci-dandelion.UUCP>
Organization: Electronic Brain Research Lab
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Part of the problem here seems to be a recurrent error I made in
my description.  The problem involves eight byte boundries which in
VAX nomenclature are QUADWORDS.  (On real machines words are 32 not 16 bits).

In article <200@ci-dandelion.UUCP>, dgg@ci-dandelion.UUCP (Dave Grubbs) writes:
> > Description:
> > 	Changing the length of the proc structure so that it is not
> > 	double word aligned anymore will cause the system to crash

	^^^^^
	QUAD

> > 	2.  If you do, pad it out to the next double word.
						QUAD

The compilers do not pad out to quadwords, only two double words.

-Ron