On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 01:06:20PM +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > > I must be missing something then(not surprising as I just started looking > > at BIRD). Why do you need the separate allocation for the body of the LSA > > then? > > Why not just adding entries to the allocated LSA header? > > Ahh, I am starting to get a clue I think. It is the struct top_hash_entry > that has this separation of LSA header and body. > Would it be feasible to move struct ospf_lsa_header lsa into > void *lsa_body, that is, merge them into one so > there is just one struct ospf_lsa_header *lsa instead?
Yes, LSA header and LSA body are separated and i am not sure what is a purpose of that separation, but it does not cause much problems, so it is probably pointless to change this. It probably makes slightly faster access to the header fields. -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'SanTiago' Zajicek (email: santi...@crfreenet.org) OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."
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