Messages in this thread | | | From | (Kanoj Sarcar) | Subject | Re: 64-bit shm: abi problems | Date | Mon, 13 Dec 1999 10:32:51 -0800 (PST) |
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> > From: kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com (Kanoj Sarcar) > Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 10:02:15 -0800 (PST) > > Coming to the shmctl(IPC_SET) problem, doesn't gcc pad out the > structure elements on 64 bit compiles to long (8 byte) sized? For > shmid_ds, the first field "shm_perm" fits in 2 longs, the old > "shm_segsz" would have taken up a long too, so all elemtns from > "shm_atime" would have had their offsets preserved. What am I > assuming wrong here? > > Endianness.
How does that changes offsets from the "shm_atime" field onwards?
"shm_segsz" might be flipped, yes.
Kanoj
> > Later, > David S. Miller > davem@redhat.com >
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