Posted Oct 3, 2008 4:00 UTC (Fri) by corbet (editor, #1)
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In fact, the value stored in len has indeed been right-shifted by two bits. It needs to be left-shifted to be interpreted. Apologies if I wrote it in a way that was less than entirely clear, but I believe it was correct.
Right-shifted
Posted Oct 3, 2008 18:53 UTC (Fri) by ndk (guest, #43509)
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Yep, I misread what you wrote.
Right-shifted
Posted Oct 10, 2008 20:46 UTC (Fri) by sethml (subscriber, #8471)
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It depends on what the meaning of "is" is. :)
Something like "the len field contains the length with the two lowest bits lopped off" would
be clearer.