Re: novice coding in /linux/net/ipv4/util.c From: DJ Barrow <dj.barrow@asitatech.com>

From: Ben Greear (greearb@candelatech.com)
Date: Mon Apr 22 2002 - 11:21:09 EST

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DJ Barrow wrote:

> Richard,
> I agree The least offensive way would be to pass in a sring from the caller,
> I didn't spot the second endian bug till you mentioned it ;-).

The input should always be in network-byte-order, so there is no
endian problem, at least. The other problem can be worked around
by the caller, though a second, similar, method that took an pre-allocated
buffer would definately be nice.

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