On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Bryan Britt wrote:
>Can any one tell me the relative advantages and disadvantages to
>installing the 128-bit patch verses the PRF2 solution? There seems to
>be a lot of talk on the list about problems regarding the 128-bit
>solution.
It doesnt matter as long as the MSB can support the value...
Like in the conventional case.. you have (1 << 31) or whatever..
Technically your reg size is 32 bit.. but if you were to try to
manipulate the flags in a way like adding them.. ex) PRF_FLAG1 |
PRF_FLAG2 it would overflow the size of the variable. Even if it was
long you still couldnt get 128 bits out of it.
If you say you have a problem with the 128 method.. try only going to
the n-1 and see if that works.. like i just explained.
>
>We are thinking about seperating out our flags into several long
>variables and using a PRF2 type solution. But we wanted to make sure
>that we did or did not want to do the 128.
>
As long as it works.. it doesnt matter.. go with the fastest or one with
the least amount of code/flexibility.
Whatever is easiest to do.. I used to go with the PRF2 method.. PRF3
even.. but it doesnt matter..
>
>
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