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Subject: Re: bcmp abuse in networking code ?
To: jonny@jonny.eng.br (Joao Carlos Mendes Luis)
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 20:10:52 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199809041739.OAA20958@roma.coe.ufrj.br> from "Joao Carlos Mendes Luis" at Sep 4, 98 02:39:27 pm
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> // In my revised bridge code i have the following macros
> // 
> // #define ETH_MATCH(a,b) ( \
...
> Indeed very good, but why not adhere to older interfaces ?  SunOS and
> Solaris have defined this as ether_cmp() for a long time.

in principle no problem, provided they are sufficiently common... but i
have two objections in practice, #1 i want it to return 1 in case of
a match because it is different from bcmp and doesn't return what
address is "greater", and #2 (maybe a personal preference) i
would like it uppercase to make it clear that it is a macro.

	cheers
	luigi

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