Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Aug 2002 17:08:50 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.28 and partitions |
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On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Thunder from the hill wrote:
> Hi, > > On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Alexander Viro wrote: > > More powerful? > > Well, compared to ASCII: it's unlikely that you meet a j letter or a \033 > in the size string.
Huh??? That's a new meaning of "powerful"... If you mean "more compact" I would certainly agree (base-10 instead of base-256), but if _that_ becomes a problem with partition tables... IIRC, OP proposed 4096 bytes for table.
Again, if somebody really can't check if array of characters is a valid representation of integer or can't implement conversion of known valid one to its value... What the devil are you doing here?
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