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Author loewis
Recipients alanmcintyre, eric.araujo, loewis, mark.dickinson, meador.inge, pleed, serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy, ubershmekel
Date 2012-05-14.20:36:35
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> This is definitely a padding issue. All uncompressed files are located
> so that the data starts with a 4-byte boundary (1190+30+15+1=1236, 27486
> +30+17+3=27536, etc). This is, probably, allows the use of mmap for the
> resources.

That can't possibly be the reason. mmap requires 4k (4096) alignment (on 
x86; more than that on SPARC).

Perhaps there is a reason for 4-alignment - but it can't be mmap-
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2012-05-14 20:36:36loewissetrecipients: + loewis, terry.reedy, mark.dickinson, alanmcintyre, eric.araujo, ubershmekel, meador.inge, serhiy.storchaka, pleed
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