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List:       suse-programming-e
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-programming] What's the best way to cure uninitialized
From:       Dave Plater <dave.plater () yahoo ! co ! uk>
Date:       2009-08-15 16:09:33
Message-ID: 4A86DDBD.8090101 () yahoo ! co ! uk
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On 08/14/2009 08:55 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
> Dave Plater wrote:
>
>   
>> From what I can understand m_padding is simply extra memory in case of
>> overflow. 
>>     
> I think it's more likely to be a filler to make sure the struct always
> has a certain size - for boundary alignment, optimized access or some
> such.  Many instructions (SSEx for instance) require that data
> structures are on certain boundaries. 
>
>   
>> Thanks very much for your help Per and Philip, the package builds on
>> local osc and works on my machine but I still have quite a few spec
>> file problems to sort out before it will build online meanwhile I will
>> submit the patch to blender.org devs to see if any unforeseen dangers
>> may have been created.
>>     
> Let us know how it goes.
>
>
> /Per Jessen, Zürich
>
>   
The package builds at last for 11.1, factory snapshot and staging.
Repositories :-
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:plater:branches:graphics/snapshot/
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:plater:branches:graphics/staging/
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:plater:branches:graphics/openSUSE_11.1/
I haven't fixed up the changelogs etc. yet.
Regards
Dave P
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