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From: njs@scifi.UUCP (Nicholas J. Simicich)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Unaligned Accesses (was Re: How to use silicon)
Message-ID: <572@scifi.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 89 12:24:11 GMT
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Another fairly common convention which limits the utility of
reordering structures is that of using a character vector as the last
element of the structure to simulate variable length records.  One
might have a character vector of MAXPATHLEN bytes, but only read or
write the number of bytes actually contained in the filename.


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