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Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming
From: Daniel Hagerty <hag () linnaean org>
Date: 22 Nov 2010 12:33:24 -0500
Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist () gmail com> writes:
I will add quad to -03 anyway. If you get a few +1 on hexquad, I am against adding that, as well.
Quad is a standard term for "64 bit integer" in C/C++. For example: $ grep -c quad /usr/src/sys/netinet6/*|awk -F: '{tot+=$2} END{print tot}' 171 which is to say, the kame derived ipv6 stack on this machine uses one of the *quad_t types 171 times. Ambiguating usages like "Take the least signifigant quad of that ipv6 address" to mean either 16 bits or 64 bits, when it currently is unamibigously 64 bits won't make the lives of C/C++ programmers writing IPv6 code any easier.
Current thread:
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming, (continued)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Nick Hilliard (Nov 22)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Joel Jaeggli (Nov 22)
- RE: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming George Bonser (Nov 22)
- RE: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming kmedcalf () dessus com (Nov 26)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Owen DeLong (Nov 26)
- Conclusions? - Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Joel Jaeggli (Nov 29)
- Re: Conclusions? - Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Doug Barton (Nov 29)
- Re: [v6ops] Conclusions? - Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Richard Hartmann (Nov 30)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Jeff Aitken (Nov 22)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Richard Hartmann (Nov 22)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Daniel Hagerty (Nov 22)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Richard Hartmann (Nov 22)