Re: kern/51450 (tcptraceroute stopped working properly in 6.0 -> 7.0 transition)

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/51450; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/51450 (tcptraceroute stopped working properly in 6.0 -> 7.0
 transition)
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 18:11:35 +0000

 On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 03:55:00PM +0000, Paul_Koning%Dell.com@localhost wrote:
  > > Not that it would make any difference for any of our platforms,
  > > since the conversion I did was
  > >
  > > u_long -> uin32_t
  > > u_short -> uint16_t
  > >
  > > and I left u_char alone, even though it could be replaced with
  > > uint8_t.  Anyway, differences in alignment rules for 64-bit types
  > > don't actually factor into the equation here.
  >  
  > I think that 16 and 32 bit types are not a problem, while I know
  > for a fact that 64 bit types are.  If others can confirm I remember
  > that correctly, then we can leave it alone.
 
 We don't have any 16-bit platforms where the alignment requirement for
 uint32_t would be less than 32-bits. Nor are we likely to ever see
 one, and if we do all kinds of stuff will break. So, don't worry about
 it.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost