# HG changeset patch
# User Matti Hamalainen <ccr@tnsp.org>
# Date 1206973670 -10800
# Node ID ac8d871b60753f88af741e00ddfd194cf4174b20
# Parent  2c3390afe10e00c64d647f864553ce7109c1a389
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diff -r 2c3390afe10e -r ac8d871b6075 HACKING
--- a/HACKING	Mon Mar 31 17:21:21 2008 +0300
+++ b/HACKING	Mon Mar 31 17:27:50 2008 +0300
@@ -53,7 +53,10 @@
   equal to some other platform.
 
   Some clever people might think that making struct "packed" via the
-  C packed qualifier would be a solution, but this will
+  C packed qualifier would be a solution, but this will cause problems
+  on platforms which require words to be aligned in memory - so it
+  "works" on x86 (with performance penalty), but will fail with bus error
+  on elsewhere.
 
   What you SHOULD do is read individual members of the struct one by one
   from the stream. This may sound bothersome, but by doing so, your code