(UTC) rather than the archaic (GMT) in comments. Except where the
comments are making fun of people doing this (and pedants who insist
on the new terms).
Add a note next to fields in network format.
The n_* types are not enough for compiler checks on endianness, and their
use often requires an otherwise unnecessary #include <netinet/in_systm.h>
The typedef in in_systm.h are still there.
is an application space macro and the applications are supposed to be free
to use it as they please (but cannot). This is consistant with the other
BSD's who made this change quite some time ago. More commits to come.
FreeBSD/alpha. The most significant item is to change the command
argument to ioctl functions from int to u_long. This change brings us
inline with various other BSD versions. Driver writers may like to
use (__FreeBSD_version == 300003) to detect this change.
The prototype FreeBSD/alpha machdep will follow in a couple of days
time.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.