<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks! I thought I was being lazy by skipping the short packets implementation. But I was just forward-thinking! ;-).<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Related to SELF_8FLAGS2, I happen to be digging into Robert Temple’s old JTrek client this evening and noticed that SELF_8FLAGS2 is turned off by default there too. Of course that’s a client not a server.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">public class FeatureList {</div></div><div class="">…</div><div class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>public Feature[] features = { </div></div><div class="">...</div><div class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>new Feature("SELF_8FLAGS2", Feature.SERVER_TYPE, <b class="">Feature.OFF</b>, Feature.SEND_FEATURE),</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div>Darrell</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 25, 2021, at 9:35 PM, James Cameron <<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" class="">quozl@laptop.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Thanks. I'm glad. The complexity of short packets is no longer<br class="">justified; the internet has grown up.<br class=""><br class="">On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 05:37:23PM -0700, Darrell Root wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">The Swift Netrek server does not implement short packets. So no impact to my server. Thanks for asking!<br class=""><br class="">Darrell<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Mar 25, 2021, at 4:46 PM, James Cameron <<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" class="">quozl@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">I was cleaning up compiler warnings in a client and found the<br class="">SELF_8FLAGS2 short packets feature that packs some of the me->p_flags<br class="">into a byte does actually misalign the flags beyond the 32-bit width<br class="">of the target variable.<br class=""><br class="">There's no implementation of the feature in my server code.<br class=""><br class="">Does anyone know of a server side implementation of SELF_8FLAGS2?<br class=""><br class="">I'm inclined to remove it rather than fix it without testing it.<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">James Cameron<br class=""><a href="https://quozl.linux.org.au/" class="">https://quozl.linux.org.au/</a><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">netrek-dev mailing list<br class="">netrek-dev@us.netrek.org<br class="">http://mailman.us.netrek.org/mailman/listinfo/netrek-dev<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">netrek-dev mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:netrek-dev@us.netrek.org" class="">netrek-dev@us.netrek.org</a><br class="">http://mailman.us.netrek.org/mailman/listinfo/netrek-dev<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">-- <br class="">James Cameron<br class=""><a href="https://quozl.linux.org.au/" class="">https://quozl.linux.org.au/</a><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">netrek-dev mailing list<br class="">netrek-dev@us.netrek.org<br class="">http://mailman.us.netrek.org/mailman/listinfo/netrek-dev<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>