hi, we rejected this idea, right? I am trying to catch up on un-acked patches.

ron

On 9/5/07, Alex Beregszaszi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this adds a 32bit version field after the magic. I choose 200709061 as a 
> starting version, where the last 1 is a counter ranging to 9, thus there can 
> be 9 different version per day (lol).
>
> It is not going to try any backward compatibility or workaround based on 
> version, just bail out or skip when a different version than we are running 
> is encountered.
>
> It might be a better idea grouping len and offset fields after or before 
> version field, and make then fixed by design, so we can do correct skipping 
> instead the 16-byte aligned walking.
>
> Note: the "/* NOTE -- This and the user-mode lar.h are NOT IN SYNC. Be 
> careful. */" message (which is present both in include/lar.h and 
> utils/lar/lar.h) is not valid anymore.
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