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From: Rical Jasan <ricaljasan@pacific.net>
To: siddhesh@sourceware.org
Cc: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com>, libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add note on MALLOC_MMAP_* environment variables
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:04:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <29b42fbc-e5c9-bd8b-a004-007c025d827a@pacific.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7d130361-6bc1-dff6-f9c0-bdd51fc43fc3@sourceware.org>

On 10/26/2016 04:30 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 October 2016 04:56 PM, Rical Jasan wrote:
>> On 10/25/2016 09:15 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>>>>> +If this parameter is not set, the default value is set as 128 KB and the
>>> Should this be 128KiB?
>>
>> I don't think binary computers count with 10 fingers.  At any rate, we
>> don't have any ibi's AFAICS:
>>
>> $ grep -Pi '\d[kmgt]i?b\b' manual/*.texi
> 
> It's the other way around AFAIK, i.e. KiB == 1024 and KB == 1000.  Looks
> like there are references to kB in code comments, so I'm fine with
> changing it to that, or if you want to be absolutely clear, I could just
> make it 131072 bytes ;)

As unambiguous as possible is best, so if you could fix the 2147483648-
and 4294967296-byte references too, that'd be great.  lol

Rical

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-26 12:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-24 14:08 [PATCH 0/2] Malloc manual cleanups Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-10-24 14:08 ` [PATCH 2/2] Document the M_ARENA_* mallopt parameters Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-10-25  7:51   ` Rical Jasan
2016-10-25 21:55   ` DJ Delorie
2016-10-26  5:42     ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-10-24 14:08 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add note on MALLOC_MMAP_* environment variables Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-10-26  4:18   ` Carlos O'Donell
2016-10-26  7:58     ` Michael Kerrisk
2016-10-26  9:47     ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-10-26 11:26     ` Rical Jasan
2016-10-26 11:30       ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-10-26 12:04         ` Rical Jasan [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-10-10 17:26 Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-10-10 17:33 ` DJ Delorie
2016-10-10 17:42   ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-10-11  6:20   ` Michael Kerrisk
2016-10-11 18:19     ` DJ Delorie
2016-10-11 19:03       ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-10-12 11:57       ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-10-17 19:40     ` Carlos O'Donell
2016-10-11 19:35 ` Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
2016-10-17 16:13 ` Carlos O'Donell
2016-10-17 16:16   ` Siddhesh Poyarekar

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