Proc structure in 4.3

Ron Natalie <ron> ron at brl-sem.ARPA
Wed Nov 19 05:34:45 AEST 1986


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 at ci-dandelion.UUCP>, dgg at 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



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