not a nice patch

Ulrich Drepper drepper@cygnus.com
Wed Feb 10 18:43:00 GMT 1999


Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> No, only by fileutils, sh-utils, textutils, make, ... See AC_LFS.

I know.  But it's only used for printing in `ls'.

> No, it's not!  The padding had only 16 bits!

But with the alignment applied it's 32 bits.

Do you prefer to not make this change?

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