Re: API draft: section 8.3 and 8.5

From: Kacheong Poon <kacheong.poon@sun.com>
Date: Tue Feb 08 2005 - 14:46:51 EST

('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) ('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) Randall Stewart wrote:

> Except that if an implementation supports the
> SCTP_I_WANT_MAPPED_V4_ADDR
>
> And this is turned OFF
>
> Then you would get a mix of V4 and V6 addresses (what Kacheong hates)..
> which is why it is vague...

I think this is more about programming practise. It is better to
have an array of the same type struct than a list of mixed type struct
because of alignment issues among other things.

> For some O/S's (such as Kacheongs) you cannto turn
> SCTP_I_WANT_MAPPED_V4_ADDR
> Off... and thats fine.. then your statements above would be completely
> true..
>
> For other OS's.. aka BSD.. you CAN disable that option so you would
> get back a mix..
>
> R
>

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						K. Poon.
						kacheong.poon@sun.com

Received on Tue Feb 8 14:50:29 2005