From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!pegasus!hansen
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: Anyone used the dbm(3) routines ?
Article-I.D.: pegasus.204
Posted: Fri Jan 28 09:44:16 1983
Received: Sat Jan 29 04:54:22 1983
References: kpno.134 fluke.684

If I were writing potentially portable code, I would NOT use or recommend
using the dbm(3) routines. The routines do some strange things with casting
pointers around. For machines which care about alignment of types, such as
longs on a double-word boundary or ints on a word boundary, the dbm routines
cause core-dumps from trying to store such beasts on arbitrary byte
boundaries.
					Sincerely,
					Tony Hansen
					pegasus!hansen