Re: cvs commit to debian-installer/libdebian-installer/src by waldi

[Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com>]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 06:49:32AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 07:26:21PM +0000, Richard Hirst wrote:
> > Havn't looked closely at this code, but that struct looks like it will
> > end up generating lots of unaligned access traps on ia64, as mem[] will
> > be on a 4 rather than 8 byte binary.
> 
> please explain why the size of size_t is 4 bytes on your ia64, any ia64
> machine i know have 8 byte.

Sorry for the noise.. I see that s/di_ksize_t/size_t/ was done to fix
this problem.

> >                                       I'm a little confused, because I
> > thought this allocation stuff had been ripped out in favour of plain
> > malloc().
> 
> Not yet, as someone break make demo and therefor the debugging facility.

OK, thanks.

Richard