Client Flags...

Brad Fitzpatrick brad at danga.com
Wed Dec 15 21:43:05 PST 2004


It was originally 32 bits, but we figured that was excessive, and trimmed
it during one of our early struct item slimming sessions.

I see no reason to change it.

- Brad


On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Sean Chittenden wrote:

> Was client flags made an u_int16_t because it was the smallest "int"
> type?  I guess my question really is, why couldn't client flags be a
> char w/ acceptable values from 0-255?  Is it a casting issue because a
> "char" data type would have to be abused as a u_int8_t data type?  -sc
>
> --
> Sean Chittenden
>
>


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