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