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To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Common Trace Format Proposal for Linux (v1)
References: <20101005193712.GB25605@Krystal>
From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:48:09 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20101005193712.GB25605@Krystal> (Mathieu Desnoyers's message of "Tue, 5 Oct 2010 15:37:12 -0400")
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Hi -

mathieu wrote:

> [...]
> Metadata attribute representation:
>   align = value;                                /* value in bits */
> [...]
>   byte_order = native OR network OR be OR le;	/* network and be are aliases */
> [...]

Is there some reason to invent a new textual syntax for describing
how to pack structs?  There is DWARF, ASN.1, C, ....

- FChE