[haiku-development] Re: hpkgs and compression
- From: Jonathan Schleifer <js-haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 20:21:27 +0100
Am 24.03.2014 um 11:44 schrieb Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>:
>> But aligning it for mmap() is a good point - though we should use 8 instead
>> of 4 I guess, since some platforms have 8 bytes as their natural alignment.
>
> mmap()ed data are always page aligned. And this really isn't relevant in this
> case, because the alignment within the package file is completely irrelevant
> to mmap()ing contained files.
Yes, the start of the data is always page-aligned. What I meant is making
contained data structures 8-byte aligned, like the start of the heap, the TOC,
etc.
--
Jonathan
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