On Mon, 10.08.09 04:08, Patrick Shirkey (pshirkey at boosthardware.com) wrote: > its a question of making sure that the *internal* API of JACK doesn't > contain any places where the server and the client(s) share a data > structure in memory that contains pointers (or various other data > types). the expected size of these pointers/data types would be > different in a 32 bit application than in a 64 bit application, > leading them (or rather the compilers used to build them) to disagree > about where elements of that data structure are in memory. this would > in turn lead to odd behaviour, memory corruption etc. etc. > > so the JACK implementation was changed to remove any such > pointers/data types, meaning that 32 bit apps (i.e. linked against a > 32 bit libjack) and a 64 bit server (linked against a 64 bit libjack > OF THE SAME VERSION) agree on how the shared memory data structures > are arranged in memory. Yes, this is exacty what PA does, too. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
