Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 08:39:40 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: eliminating the _IP_VHL hack. Message-ID: <51938.1034750380@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Oct 2002 18:46:36 EDT." <200210152246.g9FMka0o007721@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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In message <200210152246.g9FMka0o007721@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman writes: >Much better to delete the bogus BYTE_ORDER kluge from ip.h. (Note >that the definition of the bitfields in question has nothing >whatsoever to do with the actual byte order in use; it simply relies >on the historical behavior of compilers which allocated space for >bitfields in BYTE_ORDER order.) Do you intend to complete the task you originally started ? What is your plan for 3rd party software ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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