Re: Re: about your concept

<rant class="flamish">
On Jul 23, 2004, at 8:29 AM, Andrew Suffield wrote:
>>>> So you're saying that Y-devel is not a list for what you consider 
>>>> the
>>>> clueful but more of what you think of as a courtesy to people you 
>>>> don't
>>>> really deem worthy to talk with. Something like a pacifier for the
>>>> wannabees to be ignored.
>>>
>>> You said that. And you pulled it out of thin air, it appears apropos
>>> of nothing.
>>
>> If ``it all but was literally in your last post'' is your definition 
>> of
>> ``out of thin air'', then yes. The odd hyperbole is inconsequential to
>> the point I tried to drive home.
>
> More fiction. Are you actually reading anything I write?

I would say he is. Every time someone shows up that *you* don't feel 
has a clue, you show up and whack him upside the forehead with a 2x4 
cluestick. It usually shuts them up permanently, because their idea 
"has no merit" or "is insane". Frequently, you don't give much 
explanation after that.
A while ago, it was suggested that the protocol be padded out to 4-byte 
boundaries for the benefit of certain RISC platforms.
The thread:
http://www.y-windows.org/pipermail/y-devel/2004-April/thread.html#1317
Contains this gem:
http://www.y-windows.org/pipermail/y-devel/2004-April/001335.html
 From the linked message:
> Let's break the protocol on platforms without 4-byte memory alignment
> to work around the possibility of code being written by morons in the
> future"? That's not a very compelling argument. You have to be really
> stupid to write socket code with alignment issues.

Now, it doesn't break the protocol any more than it already is to have 
alignments present. It would make life easier on some CPUs and to my 
understanding have no real effect on others since they already have to 
find the boundaries.

Yes, he's reading what you're saying. I've been seriously considering 
dropping off the list because of this, even though I'm now at a point 
where I have a little time to spend on this.

I'll go crawl back into my ignoramus's cave and beat on autotools some 
more before the flames get too hot.
</rant>

AF
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