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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: May 8, 2007, 21:07 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705082306100.4167@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20070508210153.GA3969@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

Hi,

On Tue, 8 May 2007, Karl Hasselström wrote:

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> On 2007-05-08 17:10:47 +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > +  char *`, but is actually expected to be a pointer to `unsigned
> > +  char[20]`.  This variable will contain the big endian version of the
> > +  40-character hex string representation of the SHA-1.
> 
> Either it should be "unsigned char[40]" (or possibly 41 with a
> terminating \0), or else you shouldn't be talking about hexadecimal
> since it's just a 20-byte big-endian unsigned integer. (A third
> possibility is that I'm totally confused.)

It is 40 hex-character, but 20 _byte_. If you have any ideas how to formulate that better than I did...

Ciao, Dscho