Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: > 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- ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14315> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com