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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