Hey andrew!

Jun 29 13:05 06, andrew clarke wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 ac> Everyone using the existing formats.

Unfortunetly.  Doesn't seem to be a wise idea though.

 ac> It won't matter.  The world has moved on.

Looks to be still here from this angle.

 ac> All of the code should have been written to not care about 
 ac> sizeof(int) by now.

Obviously not.

 ac> working under Mac OS X.  There's not really any reason I can think of 
 ac> to stop any of it working where sizeof(int) == 8.

It stops when nobody uses the compliant software.  The only ones keeping
this going are the ones who will be gone with nobody to replace them.

 ac> It already does bitshifting.  I assume there are two libraries 
 ac> presumably because you can't mix 32-bit & 64-bit libraries in Linux.

Right.  I have one partition that has both.  I don't like it but will keep
it for now until I get a better handle on the pure 64-bit partition.

 ac> Anyway, I think you're jumping to a few too many conclusions here.  
 ac> Gert might have discovered a new bug.  Unfortunately he's not very 
 ac> good with bug reports and I don't understand his English, so I can't 
 ac> help him.

I am currently running a prior release so I am not sure myself.  I'll try
later once I get a few other issues out of the way.

 ac> IPv4 uses 32-bit ints.

No it doesn't.  It uses four one byte fields.  I think they are also big endian.

 ac> The endianness is fixed too.  Doesn't seem to 
 ac> be causing the Internet any problems though.  :-)

That is a matter of where in the loop one is but the main connections seem
to be doing their part to keep traffic moving along.  Good thing Gates
never had anything to do with that eh?

Life is good,
Maurice

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