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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 ?

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