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List:       snort-devel
Subject:    [Snort-devel] Re: [Snort-inline-users] SPARC_TWIDDLE
From:       Nick Rogness <nick () rogness ! net>
Date:       2005-06-13 23:32:31
Message-ID: 20050613164237.X92072 () skywalker ! rogness ! net
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On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Adayadil Thomas wrote:

> Greetings.
>
> Can anyone put some light on what SPARC_TWIDDLE means ?

On SPARC systems, this is used to align the header on a 32-bit boundary.
There have been errors related to this in the past, but I think they have 
been fixed since snort-2.0.0+

>
> When creating memory for stream_pkt this is used.
>
>    stream_pkt->pkth = calloc(sizeof(SnortPktHeader)+
>                              ETHERNET_HEADER_LEN +
>                              SPARC_TWIDDLE + IP_MAXPACKET,
>                              sizeof(char));
>


Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>
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