netdev - Re: [PATCH v8 net-next 1/3] filter: add Extended BPF interpreter and converter

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Message-Id: <20140310.223910.1009590531824384809.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 10 Mar 2014 22:39:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 net-next 1/3] filter: add Extended BPF interpreter
 and converter

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:33:03 -0700

> Why not for variables? It makes a lot of sense of nothing else to
> avoid the confusion that invariably happens when someone decides to
> introduce the value 2 or -1 to an existing variable (and yes, thus
> has happened a number of times.)
> 
> Not to mention they take a single byte rather than four for an int if stored in memory.

No objection :)
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