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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Colin McCabe <cmccabe@alumni.cmu.edu>
Cc: Project Hail List <hail-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: XDR print?
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:03:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B1C547F.2040607@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <436f52800912061639p4be31dc5yc15aea4b92db5065@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/06/2009 07:39 PM, Colin McCabe wrote:
> I'm wondering if there's a function that will take a buffer full of
> XDR data and an xdrproc_t, and print out a human readable version of
> the data.
> It seems like an obvious debugging tool, but I can't find a reference
> to anything like this in the XDR docs.

Yeah, I'm not aware of any.

Plus, I tend to think that automated print-outs would not be useful for 
anything beyond a first-pass attempt.  Most debugging output would 
likely be tuned to be less verbose, yet more useful, as field experience 
informs our choices.

	Jeff



      reply	other threads:[~2009-12-07  1:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-07  0:39 XDR print? Colin McCabe
2009-12-07  1:03 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]

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