In message <1107262574.711825.1337.nullmailer@yamt.dyndns.org>YAMAMOTO Takashi 
writes
>hi,
>
>Jonathan, given no responses, can i assume you've convinced?

Nope. From my perspective, M_EXT_HDREMBEDDED is a grievous mistake,
for reasons I outlined a couple of times. I'm still waiting to see an
outline (or proposal sketch, or pseudocode, or patch, or whatever)
that doesn't use M_EXT_HDREMBEDDED.

Did I miss it? 

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