From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
> Sent: 12 September 2019 23:52
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> Here it is more visible. If net->...ps_retrans is disabled, remaining
> fields (currently just this one, but as we are extending it now, we
> have to think about the possibility of more as well) will be ignored,
> we and we may not want that.
The only real way to add additional fields is to change the name
of the structure - that way recompiled programs still work.
You could require that programs zero the entire structure - but
that is difficult to verify.
And, in this case, it seems that the default has to be 0xffff
rather than 0 - which is, in itself, horrid.
David
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