On Wed, 22 Apr 1998 15:10:34 -0700 (PDT) 
 Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU> wrote:

 > I fixed this in the diff on ftp.netbsd.org. Chris Torek asked about
 > using ints rather than u_chars for the msr masks; i used ints because
 > the timestamp needs to be aligned regardless, and the ints might be
 > easier for some CPUs (alphas).  Jason?  Any comments on this?

Well, the compiler is going to pad it out regardless, and just treat it
as an int...

I would say - "Use whatever type the COM registers are"... that would
mean u_int8_t, not u_char :-)

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