From owner-freebsd-net Tue Oct 15 23:39:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04E3137B401; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 23:39:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 278AC43E6E; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 23:39:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9G6deIw051939; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 08:39:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Garrett Wollman Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: eliminating the _IP_VHL hack. In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Oct 2002 18:46:36 EDT." <200210152246.g9FMka0o007721@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 08:39:40 +0200 Message-ID: <51938.1034750380@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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