Extension to Samba IDL.

[Christopher R. Hertel]

On Jun 17,  8:07am, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > All I need is the go-ahead on what I proposed.
>
> don't wait for me, do it!!!! :)

I'm working on the code.  I just want to hear from Matty and Sander before I
get too deep in.  I need to know if there are any objections before I make a
mess of things.

Of course, I can commit to the Lucifer (cliffs) tree if you like.

> > 1) When using bitfields, we will have to be careful with alignment.  A two
> >    bit field with no following padding or alignment specified will shift
the
> >    rest of the packet.  By default, I think that we should force any
> >    non-bitfield value to start on a byte boundary.
>
> alternative:
> option autobitalign False  default is True.

Yep.  That's what I had in mind.

Chris -)-----



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