From owner-cvs-all Thu Jul 29 7:40:22 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53F22156AE; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 07:39:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA14194; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 10:39:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 10:39:16 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: des@flood.ping.uio.no, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_fw.c In-Reply-To: <199907291156.NAA06494@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > On 29 Jul 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > > > Brian Feldman writes: > > > > Log: > > > > 8 -> NBBy > > > > > > "number of bits by byte"? > > > > Yep, that's exactly what it is. NBBY is much preferred to hardcoding 8 :) > > ok, so now we have to replace all explicit occurrence of other > universal constants when used in a non-numeric context such as > > 0 -> ZERO > 1 -> ONE > 2 -> NSOB "Number of States of One Bit" > 10 -> NFTH "Number of Fingers in Two Hands" Hehe. The point is that '8' does not specifically make apparent that we want the 'Number of Bits per BYtes'. Your examples of ZERO and ONE do not make anything more clear, whereas NBBY does. > > cheers > luigi > > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message