On Fri Mar 25 11, Warner Losh wrote: > One difference between this patch, and the patch I came up with, was that I > used arrays of character pointers to the names of the symbols to use. This > got around the problem that you have with the 'shift' you had to introduce to > get things more or less correct. It also made for the possibility of having > different kinds of units in the future that weren't a power of 2 -1 bytes > long. It also simplified the code a little. > > Perhaps you would consider this improvement when devising future patches.
would you mind sharing your patch or pinpoint me to the according thread? cheers. alex > > Warner > > > On Mar 24, 2011, at 8:46 PM, Alexander Best wrote: > > > here is a revised patch. it also includes the necessary changes to the > > humanize_number(3) man page. > > > > cheers. > > alex > > > > -- > > a13x > > <IEC_80000_13.diff>_______________________________________________ > > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- a13x _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
