Questions on the machine check

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1. Is the "machine check code"(What I mean is listed below) of linux used 
for byte boundary alignment?
    _machine = machine()
    if _machine == 'i686':
If another cpu architechure was used such as ARM or PowerPC, that is I am 
going to port the fusepy to another platform, what I need to do is to fix 
the byte boundary alignment?

Thanks.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by minggang...@gmail.com on 10 Jul 2009 at 7:32

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_machine is used to differentiate between 32bit and 64bit Linux, since they 
have differences in their stat 
structures. If you want to port fusepy to ARM or PowerPC you need to see what 
differences exist in the sizes of 
the various types. Don't forget to add -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 when you are 
checking the headers:
    e.g. gcc -E -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 /usr/include/sys/stat.h

Original comment by verigak on 11 Jul 2009 at 12:58

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Thanks, buddy.

Original comment by minggang...@gmail.com on 14 Jul 2009 at 2:29

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Original comment by verigak on 31 Jul 2009 at 9:15

• Changed state: Done