On 8/9/16 3:04 PM, David Miller wrote:
From: rapier <rap...@psc.edu>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 13:17:59 -0400
I cannot deny that would be a problem but conversely, those
applications are currently in a position where they may be depending
on inaccurate data. I'm not advocating breaking things for the sake of
breaking things but my feeling is that this will eventually need to be
addressed. Since the segs datastructure is a relatively recent
addition it might make sense to make that change now before it's even
more baked in to other applications.
Changing the size or position of these data structure members is
simply not an option. It is locked into stone, and a permanent
ABI which we cannot change.
Please stop discussing as if changing this is a possibility.
I apologize, I wasn't aware of the constraints on this. There are other
solutions available and I'll focus on those.
