[Swan] names beginning with _

Paul Wouters paul at nohats.ca
Sun Feb 10 18:06:53 EET 2013


On Sun, 10 Feb 2013, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:

> Speaking of underscores, what's up with this comment in
> lib/libpluto/packet.c?
>
> /* Find last complete top-level payload and change its np
> *  * Note: we must deal with payloads already formatted for the network.
> *
> _*_Note:_we_don't_think_a_FALSE_return_should_happen_but_old_routine_did.
> *   */

That is traced to:

commit fa384bccde5259d440f552da42a7183cd92b6eeb
Author: Paul Wouters <paul at xelerance.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 20 21:58:27 2010 -0500

     out_modify_previous_np() made assumptions that network order and
     byte order would be the same. Patch by dhr.

So that was either you or me :)

Paul


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