Re: [Qemu-devel] Use a hex string

2011-05-23 Thread Jamie Lokier
Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 05/23/2011 06:02 PM, Jamie Lokier wrote: > >Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >>The problem is to be able to send 64 bit memory and disk offsets > >>faithfully. This doesn't just fail to solve the problem, it's > >>actually going to make it a whole lot worse. > > > >Such offs

Re: [Qemu-devel] Use a hex string

2011-05-23 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 05/23/2011 06:02 PM, Jamie Lokier wrote: Richard W.M. Jones wrote: The problem is to be able to send 64 bit memory and disk offsets faithfully. This doesn't just fail to solve the problem, it's actually going to make it a whole lot worse. Such offsets would be so much more readable in hexa

[Qemu-devel] Use a hex string (was: [PATCH] qemu: json: Fix parsing of integers >= 0x8000000000000000)

2011-05-23 Thread Jamie Lokier
Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > The problem is to be able to send 64 bit memory and disk offsets > faithfully. This doesn't just fail to solve the problem, it's > actually going to make it a whole lot worse. Such offsets would be so much more readable in hexadecimal. So why not use a string "0x8