On 18-Aug-2004 Julian Elischer wrote: > John Polstra wrote: >> >> There is one problem with netgraph on 64-bit platforms. The ng_msghdr >> struct is 52 bytes / 4-byte aligned (see ng_message.h). That means >> the message payload is not well-aligned for 64-bit platforms. It >> would be nice to fix that (and bump NG_VERSION, of course). Nobody >> ever guaranteed that the message payload would be aligned, but it >> makes things a lot more convenient. > > if we do this we should do it now so that we have a consistent ABI from 5.3 on.. > > scott (et al), should we pad an extra 4 bytes in this now? > it's low/no risk, but better now than after 5.3 has been released..
I'd really like to see this change happen. Julian, would it require bumping just NG_VERSION, or should NG_ABI_VERSION change too? John _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
