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Re: [patch] 64 bit disk address support (= 8192EiB disks)
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Yoshinori K. Okuji |
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Re: [patch] 64 bit disk address support (= 8192EiB disks) |
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Sat, 22 Oct 2005 02:06:22 +0200 |
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On Saturday 22 October 2005 01:46 am, Timothy Baldwin wrote:
> > I think it is better to define grub_off_t as grub_uint64_t, and use
> > grub_off_t.
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> Misleading as POSIX uses off_t as a byte offset. Also grub_off_t would be
> logical type name for file offsets, which should use a separate type to aid
> changing it.
I disagree. The development environment of GRUB was created to be
intentionally similar to POSIX. For example, look at the usage of
grub_size_t. It is rather convenient that one can guess how to program in
GRUB based on an experience on POSIX.
> Also grub_off_t is used in kern/mm.c to count bytes of memory.
What is bad?
Okuji
- [patch] 64 bit disk address support (= 8192EiB disks), Timothy Baldwin, 2005/10/21
- Re: [patch] 64 bit disk address support (= 8192EiB disks), Marco Gerards, 2005/10/21
- Re: [patch] 64 bit disk address support (= 8192EiB disks), Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2005/10/21
- Re: [patch] 64 bit disk address support (= 8192EiB disks), Marco Gerards, 2005/10/21
- Re: [patch] 64 bit disk address support (= 8192EiB disks), Timothy Baldwin, 2005/10/21
- Re: [patch] 64 bit disk address support (= 8192EiB disks),
Yoshinori K. Okuji <=
- Re: [patch] 64 bit disk address support (= 8192EiB disks), Timothy Baldwin, 2005/10/22
- Re: [patch] 64 bit disk address support (= 8192EiB disks), Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2005/10/27
- Re: [patch] 64 bit disk address support (= 8192EiB disks), Timothy Baldwin, 2005/10/28
Re: [patch] 64 bit disk address support (= 8192EiB disks), Timothy Baldwin, 2005/10/23