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author: sl <sl@stanleylieber.com>
date: Wed Jan 6 16:08:38 EST 2021
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+.SH
+1.3.1.1.1 - Why do some new program names begin with hj?
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+.ihtml h4
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+.html ul <ul>
+.DS
+Message-ID: <775b8d190603072010v282cd1afl8677895d3407d914@mail.gmail.com>
+Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 15:10:14 +1100
+From: "Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
+To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
+Subject: Re: [9fans] structure allocation.
+In-Reply-To: <225d545abee6717eec8ffe272836f235@collyer.net>
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+
+i still like hjdicks it is obscure enough that no-one would think it's
+a feature (or guess it). it was required because we had a large
+slab of 3rd-party code that assumed it could read packets off the
+wire (assuming correct endian) and do no marshaling.
+
+#pragam pack
+
+looks like a feature.
+
+i was there when it happened (after a nice italian meal).
+
+ken asked "Do i really have to do this?"
+
+P: Yes, there's buckets of code that rely on it.
+
+K: *some expression of disbelief*
+
+P: well hj are just dicks
+
+done deal
+
+it also turned out to be important for inferno on machines with
+greater than 32 bit alignment requirements. the 64 bit mips
+is an example. took but a recompile with hjdicks in the right
+place (it takes an optional alignment parameter). same with
+the ps2 which has 128 bit issues.
+
+thanks for telling me that it has been changed.
+
+brucee
+
+On 3/8/06, geoff@collyer.net <geoff@collyer.net> wrote:
+> I was implicitly referring to C compilers. Heck, Pascal had packed
+> data in the early 1970s, possibly even the late 1960s.
+
+
+.DE
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