Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 01 Aug 2002 23:25:49 +0200 | From | Marcin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.28 and partitions |
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Uz.ytkownik Alexander Viro napisa?: > > 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?
Ahh. we are at "devil" arguemnt level... So I will ease myself: Why the hell don't you rewrite the whole kernel for example in LISP if you love string processing that much? I know I know GCC people tryed this in C for a compiler...
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