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Date:      Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:35:08 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
Cc:        net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: multiple definitions of ROUNDUP macro
Message-ID:  <20040413153508.GB20550@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <20040413014720.A57543@xorpc.icir.org>
References:  <20040413014720.A57543@xorpc.icir.org>

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On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 01:47:20AM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> The ROUNDUP macro, used to account for the space occupied by a sockaddr  =
=20
> when passed through a routing socket, is defined in a zillion places:
>=20
> src/usr.sbin/IPXrouted/startup.c:#define ROUNDUP(a) \
> src/usr.sbin/arp/arp.c:#define ROUNDUP(a) \
> src/usr.sbin/ndp/ndp.c:#define ROUNDUP(a) \
> src/usr.sbin/ppp/defs.h:#define ROUNDUP(x) ((x) ? (1 + (((x) - 1) | (size=
of(longsrc/usr.sbin/route6d/route6d.c:#define ROUNDUP(a) \
> src/usr.sbin/rwhod/rwhod.c:#define ROUNDUP(a) \
> src/sys/net/route.c.orig:#define ROUNDUP(a) (a>0 ? (1 + (((a) - 1) | (siz=
eof(lonsrc/sys/net/rtsock.c:#define ROUNDUP(a) \
>=20
> A similar macro, ADVANCE, has similar problems.
> This is confusing at best, and a likely source of trouble.
>=20
> If there are no objections I would like to replace it with a
> centralised macro (possibly with a suitable name) which takes
> a sockaddr * as argument and returns the rounded-up size of the
> object as a result.

Sounds good.  BDE suggested the roundup/roundup2 macros in sys/param.h
when I was removing some macros from net/if.c.

> BTW, i notice that the rounding is to multiples of "sizeof(long)",
> and i wonder if this is intentional, especially on 64-bit
> architectures.

Our wordsize is long on all architectures so that makes sense to me.

-- Brooks

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