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Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/4] lib/hexdump.c: Allow 64 bytes per line
Date:   Mon, 15 Apr 2019 20:59:36 +1000
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> From: Alastair D'Silva
> > Sent: 15 April 2019 11:29
> ...
> > I do, and I believe the choice of the output length should be in the
> > hands of the caller.
> >
> > On further thought, it would make more sense to remove the hardcoded
> > list of sizes and just enforce a power of 2. The function shouldn't
> > dictate what the caller can and can't do beyond the technical limits =
of it's
> implementation.
>=20
> Why powers of two?
> You may want the length to match sizeof (struct foo).
> You might even want the address increment to be larger that the number =
of
> lines dumped.

Good point, the base requirement is that it should be a multiple of =
groupsize.

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