Re: Bug#44654: dpkg: seg faults w/2.3.17; problem traced to sysinfo()
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 10 Sep 1999 10:51:18 +0100 (BST)
> I suggest also to put back the comment about the 64byte alignment.
>
> --- 2.3.17/include/linux/kernel.h Wed Sep 8 18:18:56 1999
> +++ kernel.h Fri Sep 10 02:32:45 1999
> @@ -96,7 +96,8 @@
> unsigned short procs; /* Number of current processes */
> unsigned long totalbig; /* Total big memory size */
> unsigned long freebig; /* Available big memory size */
> - char _f[22-2*sizeof(long)]; /* Padding: libc5 uses this.. */
> + char _f[12]; /* Pads structure to 64 bytes
> + (libc5 uses this..) */
> };
>
> #endif
>
> Andrea
That is trivially and obviously wrong. You have to do the sizeof check
because of 64bit machines
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