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 13:26:01 +0100 (BST)


> Ok, I forgot about 64bit machines. BTW also your '20-' is obviously
> _wrong_ because you are supposing that sizeof(long)-sizeof(short) is 2.

Good point

> + unsigned long totalbig __attribute__((packed)); /* Total big memory size */
> + unsigned long freebig __attribute__((packed)); /* Available big memory size */

That doesnt work on the ARM3

The best I have so far is

struct _foo
{
...
...
}

struct real_foo
{
...
...
char pad [64-sizeof(struct _foo)] __attribute((packed));
}

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