From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2004-10-27T23:38:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Errors in line numbers reported?

>>>>> "M" == Markus  <markus@reality.com> writes:

M>      *laugh*  I've looked at both, but looking may not be seeing.

 Well, I don't know how to say this

M>       * I came up with a patch (see earlier in this thread) that neatly
M>         handled line numbers greater than 8k; I added a long to the
M>         header.  (Previously, they had been packed into bits in the
M>         flags field).  This maintained double-word-alignment, but grew
M>         the structure by four bytes.

 if you add a long to the header, you change the size of *all* R struct

M>       * u3 is the longest variant part.  If it were four bytes shorter,
M>         the whole structure would be the same length as it had been
M>         before I my patch.

 u3 is not the longest variant part, u3 has the same size than u1 and u2

 it exist nodes which uses u1, u2 and u3



Guy Decoux