[2558] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: Prototype hell
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Hornstein)
Fri Oct 10 16:23:45 1997
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: krbdev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Oct 1997 16:16:14 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 16:23:33 -0400
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
>Stupid question ---- why does it help to make krb5_int32 be a short?
>Given that sizeof(short) is still 8 bytes, it's still going to break
>things..... you might as well set krb5_int32 to be an int. Either way,
>you'll still need to fix those places which depend on sizeof(krb5_int32)
>to be equal to 4.
It makes things easier when you depend on the mathematical properties of
32-bit integers ... such as when you're shifting bits around when
doing DES calculations, for instance. I'd agree that's a bug too, but
I was going for minimum work :-)
And since on _some_ Cray architectures, short really is 32 bits, using
short as krb5_int32 was my plan from when I first started. Doesn't
seem like it's going to be that easy, though.
--Ken
