Re: svn commit: r39997 - trunk/tools/server-side

Branko Cibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> writes:

> struct. Yes, there can be padding, and yes, using (apr_p)calloc to
> allocate the struct avoids hashing random padding bits.

Is that correct? When code writes to a struct can it change the
padding bits? I'm not aware of any requirement on the compiler to
avoid changing those bits. Consider a machine where writing 32-bit
values is faster than writing smaller values: a compiler may choose to
use 32-bit writes to change a 16-bit value when the other 16-bits are
padding; the padding bits would then get random values.

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Received on 2009-10-14 11:38:36 CEST