Subject: Re: DDB changes
To: None <atatat@atatdot.net>
From: None <jchacon@genuity.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/29/2000 12:42:02
>>0xa1234567: 00 00 00 01 10
>>
>>vs (mine)
>>
>>0xa1234567: 00000001 10
>>
>>I can make the other code space the same way without too much effort but
>>otherwise it looks ok.
>
>i slightly prefer the former, but that's neither here nor there. the
>only thing that ever irks me about hexdumps like this is the
>implication that the 00000001 (from yours) may or may not be in local
>byte order or network byte order. for, eg, sparcs it makes no
>difference. for intel it does. im(ns)ho, it should *always* be in
>network byte order since that's the ordering my brain uses.
I used network byte order and did all my testing on x86 to make sure
it works correctly. (mach does the same thing).
James