Packed Structures?

[Henry Spencer]

Actually, all holes *don't* necessarily go away if you were to declare
something "packed" to a 16032 compiler that understood the notion.
The 16032 cannot guarantee to do copy-on-write memory management properly
unless things are aligned.  (The problem is that an unaligned data item
which crosses a page boundary from a read-write page to a read-only page
may get its first part stomped before the MMU realizes that the second
part is not writeable.)
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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