Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 10:44:55 +0100 (CET) From: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de> To: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz> Cc: <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: CFR: Sequential mbuf read/write extensions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0102071036000.6318-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102071530140.7952-100000@lion.butya.kz>
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On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Boris Popov wrote: BP>> Using 'word' and 'doubleword' is rather confusing (when speeking of words BP>> I would think of 32 bit nowadays). BP> BP> Well, it depends. For me 'word', 'dword' and 'qword' are clear BP>from the good old 8bit days :) BP> BP> If numbers in the function names looks good I can live with it. Well, I just looked back to the bus_space stuff and discovered, that they use suffixes of _[1234] to count the number of bytes the functions operate on. Perhaps this is a better variant? Anyway, I think, numbers are much clearer, than words in this case (As an example, what does ntohl operate on if longs are 64 bit??). As a side note: Someone told me that Mickeysoft is trying to persuade the C standardisation people to drop the requirement that longs should not be shorter than int's. This is, he said, because of their braindamage with DWORD in -zillions of header files... If I look how they continue to cripple C, this may also slip through :-( harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.gmd.de, harti@begemot.org, lhbrandt@mail.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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