"Krumme, Chris" <chris.kru...@windriver.com> writes: > Hello Markus, > > Not sure of the best answer, but thought there should be some > discussion. > > You mention Mebibyte, which according to the all knowing Wikipedia, is > abbreviated Mi. > > I understand that if you will only support one, then maybe you don't > need to differentiate from Megabyte, but then in a later patch you use > m, u, and n for powers of 10. This causes your new double format to use > powers of 2 above one and powers of 10 below.
Really? Argument types M and b use powers of 2. Argument type T uses powers of 10. > Maybe this is just one of those geek things, powers of 2 for integers, > and powers of 10 for fractions. > > Good luck. I merely reimplemented existing usage in a way that does the right thing for QMP. Can't say I like the ad-hocery there, but improving the (non-QMP) monitor is not my objective right now.
