Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 23:17:51 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jordan.hubbard@gmail.com> Subject: Re: General purpose library for name/value pairs. Message-ID: <20130726211751.GB1811@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <20130727070531.D4895@besplex.bde.org> References: <20130705195255.GB25842@garage.freebsd.pl> <60317.1373055040@critter.freebsd.dk> <20130708150308.GE1383@garage.freebsd.pl> <717D098F-D07E-45B0-B9F0-8D8BCEF06923@mail.turbofuzz.com> <20130708213351.GB1405@garage.freebsd.pl> <D2E98A8F-F765-4A56-96CD-4410944A2910@turbofuzz.com> <20130725202832.GD1400@garage.freebsd.pl> <20130726175858.Y1061@besplex.bde.org> <20130726181108.GA1811@garage.freebsd.pl> <20130727070531.D4895@besplex.bde.org>
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On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 07:13:51AM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jul 2013, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
>=20
> > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 06:04:15PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >> On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> >>
> >>> Returning to this thread after a short break. I removed all
> >>> {,u}int{8,16.32.64} types and implemented only 'number' type which is
> >>> uint64_t. Looks much nicer now.
> >>
> >> The numeric type should be floating point. Or better yet, bignum. Or
> >> more practically, uintmax_t.
> >
> > The uintmax_t in theory can change in the future, which would make
> > sending numeric type from system with larger uintmax_t to system with
> > smaller uintmax_t problematic.
>=20
> Using uint64_t is especially broken then, since uint64_t is too small to
> represent numbers on the system with larger uintmax_t. [...]
At least the user is aware of the size and is not surprised by some
undefined behaviour.
> [...] But how is the
> data sent across systems by your API?
By nvlist_send(sock, nvl).
--=20
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