On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, matthew green wrote:

: this is some lossage with the compiler from what i remember from
: looking at it recently.  this should be fixed.

`lossage' with the compiler?  ahem?  There's absolutely no guarantee to the
user how different variables will be laid out in memory on a given arch.

: like the old \0, \0, \0, \0, @, (, #, ) that we had in sccs[].  as i
: recall it, the for nuls were added to make what(1) work on the sparc.

See `different variables ... given arch'.

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