Re: Canonical

Leslie Hart (hart@nipmuc.fsl.noaa.gov)
Thu, 13 Feb 1997 15:25:18 -0700 (MST)

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> > What I'm trying to get at here is a potential problem that exists with XDR.
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> Ah. Good point about XDR. I would imagine that the native datatypes would not
> have this problem, though...?
I dunno. I suppose if we said THERE IS NO ALIGNMENT in FILES, there would
be no problem. If there is type alignment on disk, I can still constuct
pathological cases that are annoying (I think).

Leslie
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