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List:       netbsd-port-sparc
Subject:    Re: egcs & sparc.
From:       Jason Thorpe <thorpej () nas ! nasa ! gov>
Date:       1998-10-30 20:16:28
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On Fri, 30 Oct 1998 10:37:14 -0500 
 Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:

 > So, what's the right thing to do if you're not supposed to cast
 > struct sockaddr * to struct sockaddr_in *?

Well, normally you cast a struct sockaddr_foo to a struct sockaddr, because
the sockaddr is the generic structure.

To work around this in the code, you could do that ifconfig(8) does (similar
problem on Alpha, in this case):

struct  ifaliasreq      addreq __attribute__((aligned(4)));

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