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Re: Linux-libre for Debian Lenny



"Joe Smith" <unknown_kev_cat@hotmail.com> writes:

> "Mark Brown" <broonie@sirena.org.uk> wrote in message
> [🔎] 20090427092413.GA1760@sirena.org.uk">news:[🔎] 20090427092413.GA1760@sirena.org.uk...
> > Indeed; [an inline table of bytes] is a *very* common way of
> > expressing register values, especially when working with large
> > numbers of them at once. I've no idea what Robert believes the
> > preferred form of modification is.
> 
> Perhaps some indication of where the heck the numbers came from?
> Surely there is some meaning to the numbers.

You seem to be moving beyond “the preferred form of the work for making
modifications to it” and into “documentation to help understand the
work”. I'm sure many programmers will have stories about works without
such explanation that is nevertheless still the source code for the work.

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Ben Finney


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