Subject: Re: DDB changes
To: None <jchacon@genuity.net>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/29/2000 12:51:45
groovy.  :)

On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:42:02PM -0500, jchacon@genuity.net wrote:
>>>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

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