On Saturday 28 October 2006 20:32, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > Are you saying that given tag->key == foo, tag->length == sizeof(struct > tag_foo)? I think it makes far more sense to allow 'length' to be > independent of 'key', and that means we don't need this 'reserved' > stuff.
'length' is sometimes somehow independent. When passing data whose size is variable, 'length' specifies the size. The size of an item is indirectly defined by 'length'. The size of an item can be different from the size of data, because of a padding for an alignment. Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
