30 Apr
2007
30 Apr
'07
12:04 p.m.
[Jonathan S Shapiro]
Question: does the 'C' bit provide a real advantage, or is it a historical curiosity? If there is an advantage, can somebody give an example?
The 'C' bit is a historical curiosity, and in fact, the bit was never interpreted or set during the IPC transfer phase. For specification updates that I have worked on I have defined the C bit only for string items and use it only for specifying multiple string items for receive buffers. The bit is completely ignored for send string items.
eSk