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From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Subject: Re: General purpose library for name/value pairs.
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On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 08:10:40PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> Maybe the basic n/v should just do strings, and interpretation of
> strings be a layer above ?

How about instead of supporting int8, uint8, int16, uint16, int32,
uint32, int64 and uint64 I'd just support 'number' type, which would be
uint64_t. This shouldn't break transporting signed values and because I
don't support basic types like int, long, etc. casting or conversion has
to be done anyway. This would reduce number of supported types to:

	NV_TYPE_NULL
	NV_TYPE_BOOL
	NV_TYPE_NUMBER
	NV_TYPE_STRING
	NV_TYPE_NVLIST
	NV_TYPE_DESCRIPTOR
	NV_TYPE_BOOL_ARRAY
	NV_TYPE_NUMBER_ARRAY
	NV_TYPE_STRING_ARRAY
	NV_TYPE_NVLIST_ARRAY
	NV_TYPE_DESCRIPTOR_ARRAY

So 11 types down from 25 types.

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