henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (05/20/88)
Terry, do stop posting these 150-line screeds whining about how your sloppy code won't port to the SPARC. You'd have the same experience on any number of new machines. Some of us have known all along that things like padding and alignment and variable-length argument lists are machine-dependent -- it says so in K&R, among other places. The days when most machines were VAXes or 68020s and you could get away with being lazy were a passing aberration, not the normal state of affairs. Incidentally, if you try aligning things carefully, you will find that your code runs faster even on machines that will let you be sloppy about alignment. -- NASA is to spaceflight as | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology the Post Office is to mail. | {ihnp4,decvax,uunet!mnetor}!utzoo!henry