On 08 November 2006 08:13, FX Coudert wrote:
>> Suggestion: We should make sure we can accommodate F2003 with
>> 4.2 and 4.3 by increasing the possible number of flags as needed.
>
> I'm in favour of that, and I already started writing the necessary
> patch. But it looks like we'll have to bump the so number a last
> time, for 4.3, and then make the private part of the structure wider,
> to accomodate any new flags (for things like extension, or the way
> we'll really handle asynchronous I/O).
>
> FX
What's the problem with just adding a new 'extended private stuff' field to
the very end of the struct and allocating one of the remaining flag bits to
say if it's present or not?
cheers,
DaveK
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