On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 01:11 -0800, Luben Tuikov wrote:
> Looks good except that "End LBA" is usually defined
> to be something of the sort of "the LBA of the last
> logical block accessed by the command" or "the LBA
> of the logical block on which the command failed".
> 
> A spec savvy editor of this code would be
> "pleasantly" surprised if they had to use "end_lba",
> and didn't pay attention that it was actually
> "End LBA" + 1.

Heh, well, that's where spec people and programmers part company.  The
universal expectation of a programmer in looping is

for (a = beginning; a < end; a++)

rather than <= if end were actually to point to last rather than last +
1.

James


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