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Subject: Re: settings.c confuses meRe: settings.c confuses me
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From: Björn Stenberg <bjorn_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 10:15:43 +0100
TP Diffenbach wrote:
> Why not just read the settings on disk into global settings:
> read( fd, &global_settings, sizeof( global_settings)?, with some additional
> code for the RTC?
The config block is packed into 512 bytes, while the global_settings struct is unpacked and thus bigger. The memory we waste using a bigger struct is saved by enabling simpler code to access the data. (Booleans as ints instead of bits, for example.)
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 10:15:43 +0100
TP Diffenbach wrote:
> Why not just read the settings on disk into global settings:
> read( fd, &global_settings, sizeof( global_settings)?, with some additional
> code for the RTC?
The config block is packed into 512 bytes, while the global_settings struct is unpacked and thus bigger. The memory we waste using a bigger struct is saved by enabling simpler code to access the data. (Booleans as ints instead of bits, for example.)
-- BjörnReceived on 2003-03-24
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