On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 12:31 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > The bitfield formatting is indeed frustrating! It should be easy to > fix though.
> Can someone from Microsoft comment on whether they think that this > would be possible? > > > Presented apparently with the sole intention of increasing programmer > > frustration > > I think 'intention' is a bit strong :-) Probably, without knowing Microsoft's mind, but from the outside it looks like a programmer was not involved (or was, but not heard) in designing this particular aspect of documentation format. > It certainly is done quite badly with many of the tables, but I don't > think there was any intention to make it bad, it is just that as > implementors we run across this poor layout more than the > documentation writers. I suppose - but surely even Microsoft's own testers can't find this easy to use! Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc. http://redhat.com
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