Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Code for ISAKMP, GRE, and PPTP

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From: Bobo Rajec <bobo@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:43:23 +0200
On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 01:24:36PM -0500, Gilbert Ramirez wrote:
> and probably,
> 
> accesses to 8-byte variables need to be aligned on 8-byte memory
> boundaries, although I don't have a 64-bit machine to test this on.

Yes. Have been bitten by this before, on Sparc. Although for example
with gcc you can specify -munaligned-doubles.

	bobo rajec