[dovecot] Re: Using on AIX

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Apr 25 04:43:48 EEST 2003


On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 04:34, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> Got it, the struct sizes aren't padded to 8 bytes but Dovecot wants
> that. So it pads them while writing, but the reading part is a bit too
> pedantic and wants exact sizes. For now the easiest fix is to configure
> --with-mem-align=4. I changed configure to do this automatically now
> with 32bit file offsets. Have to fix this properly later..

Or actually maybe I should fix it properly now. This breaks if pointers
are 64bit but off_t is 32bit, and CPU doesn't want to do unaligned
memory accesses..

Index files should probably have separate alignment behaviour since it
can't contain pointers. off_t is likely to be the only possible 64bit
value in it.




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