From: Marcin Dalecki <dalecki@evision.ag>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>,
Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
Matt_Domsch@Dell.com, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.28 and partitions
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 23:25:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D49A75D.801@evision.ag> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.GSO.4.21.0208011700580.12627-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu
Uz.ytkownik Alexander Viro napisa?:
>
> On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Thunder from the hill wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:
>>
>>>More powerful?
>>
>>Well, compared to ASCII: it's unlikely that you meet a j letter or a \033
>>in the size string.
>
>
> Huh??? That's a new meaning of "powerful"... If you mean "more compact"
> I would certainly agree (base-10 instead of base-256), but if _that_ becomes
> a problem with partition tables... IIRC, OP proposed 4096 bytes for table.
>
> Again, if somebody really can't check if array of characters is a valid
> representation of integer or can't implement conversion of known valid
> one to its value... What the devil are you doing here?
Ahh. we are at "devil" arguemnt level... So I will ease myself:
Why the hell don't you rewrite the whole kernel for example in LISP if
you love string processing that much?
I know I know GCC people tryed this in C for a compiler...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-01 21:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <15688.25919.138565.6427@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au>
2002-07-31 22:39 ` 2.5.28 and partitions Alexander Viro
2002-08-01 10:08 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-01 12:31 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-08-01 19:29 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-01 20:31 ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-01 20:45 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-01 21:08 ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-01 21:25 ` Marcin Dalecki [this message]
2002-08-01 21:41 ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-02 19:40 ` Mike Touloumtzis
2002-08-01 21:02 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-01 21:27 ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-01 21:45 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-02 5:21 ` Ryan Anderson
2002-08-01 21:24 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-02 19:47 ` Mike Touloumtzis
2002-08-02 20:49 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-02 21:21 ` Mike Touloumtzis
2002-08-02 21:36 ` [RFC] " Thunder from the hill
2002-08-02 22:12 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-02 22:53 ` Mike Touloumtzis
2002-08-02 14:54 Jesse Pollard
2002-08-02 18:33 ` Kai Henningsen
[not found] <15688.27022.143541.447952@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au>
2002-07-31 23:42 ` Alexander Viro
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-07-31 23:38 Matt_Domsch
[not found] <F44891A593A6DE4B99FDCB7CC537BBBBB839AC@AUSXMPS308.aus.amer .dell.com>
2002-07-31 22:58 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-07-31 22:47 Matt_Domsch
2002-07-25 17:50 Andries.Brouwer
2002-07-25 13:24 Petr Vandrovec
2002-07-25 13:45 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-07-26 5:13 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-07-25 12:43 Petr Vandrovec
2002-07-25 3:22 Matt_Domsch
2002-07-25 5:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-25 11:44 ` Alexander Viro
2002-07-25 15:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-30 9:58 ` Pavel Machek
[not found] ` <Pine.GSO.4.21.0207250739390.17037-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu >
2002-07-25 13:03 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-07-25 16:50 ` Alexander Viro
2002-07-25 17:35 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
2002-07-25 17:57 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-25 18:27 ` Alexander Viro
2002-07-27 5:56 ` Austin Gonyou
[not found] ` <Pine.GSO.4.21.0207251245530.17621-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu >
2002-07-25 17:39 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-07-25 10:42 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-24 22:42 Andries.Brouwer
2002-07-24 23:42 ` Alexander Viro
2002-07-25 0:20 ` kwijibo
2002-07-25 4:00 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
[not found] ` <Pine.GSO.4.21.0207241925450.14656-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu >
2002-07-25 2:11 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-07-25 5:15 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207242213540.1231-100000@home.transmeta.com >
2002-07-25 8:43 ` Anton Altaparmakov
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