Re: MemPools rewrite

From: Alex Rousskov <rousskov@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 09:54:20 -0600 (MDT)

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Andres Kroonmaa wrote:

> I wonder what is meant by "needs" or "required" here. Will program
> brake miserably when alignment is not met, or is it just a matter
> of running slower? That is: how fatal is failing to align?

It can be as fatal as it gets: the application is killed. Same for
mis-aligned integers, btw. IIRC, Squid used to have that bug when
parsing an ICP message from a raw buffer would kill the process.

Alex.
Received on Thu Oct 19 2000 - 09:54:26 MDT

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