Re: [PATCH] Add a birdview-on-the-source-code section to the user manual

From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date: May 9, 2007, 20:32 UTC
Message-ID: <20070509203209.GM23778@fieldses.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705092208230.4167@racer.site>

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:15:19PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> If you parse a number, passed to a program, with strtol(argv[1], NULL, 0) 
> you would expect something like this on an Intel processor:
> 
> Input 0x1234 -> memory 0x34 0x12 0x00 0x00.

Right, but this is something special to integers. If it made sense for some strange reason to define the structure carrying a sha1 as int[5] instead of char[20] then I'd understand the confusion, but char[20] is totally unambiguous.

> But if all this sounds too confusing, I agree to delete the 
> "(big-endian)".

Yeah, I think that'd be best; thanks.

--b.