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Date:      Wed, 27 May 2009 14:02:30 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
Cc:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD & Software RAID
Message-ID:  <20090527190230.GB9937@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
In-Reply-To: <200905271152.34237.kirk@strauser.com>
References:  <4A1AA3DC.5020300@network-i.net> <200905271048.27837.kirk@strauser.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905271832320.53013@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <200905271152.34237.kirk@strauser.com>

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On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:52:33AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 May 2009 11:40:51 am Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> 
> > you talk about performance or if it work at all?
> 
> Both, really.  If they have to code up macros to support identical
> operations (such as addition) on both platforms, and accidentally
> forget to use the macro in some place, then voila: untested code.

I haven't looked at the ZFS code but this sort of thing is exactly why
all code I write uses int8_t, int16_t, int32_t, uint8_t, ... even when
the first thing I have to do with a new compiler is to work out the
proper typedefs to create them.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.



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