<<On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 00:17:13 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> In the meantime absolutely no code has picked up on this idea, It was copied in spirit from OSF/1. > The side effect of having some source-files using the _IP_VHL hack and > some not is that sizeof(struct ip) varies from file to file, Not so. Any compiler which allocates different amounts of storage to one eight-bit member versus two four-bit bitfield members is seriously broken (and would defeat the whole purpose). > I would therefore propose to eliminate the _IP_VHL hack from the kernel > to end this state of (potential) confusion, and invite comments to the > following patch: 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.) -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
