Re: [PATCH] lib: add size unit t/p/e to memparse

From: Brendan Hide
Date: Mon Mar 31 2014 - 07:24:04 EST


On 31/03/14 12:03, Gui Hecheng wrote:
- * potentially suffixed with %K (for kilobytes, or 1024 bytes),
- * %M (for megabytes, or 1048576 bytes), or %G (for gigabytes, or
- * 1073741824). If the number is suffixed with K, M, or G, then
+ * potentially suffixed with
+ * %K (for kilobytes, or 1024 bytes),
+ * %M (for megabytes, or 1048576 bytes),
+ * %G (for gigabytes, or 1073741824),
+ * %T (for terabytes, or 1099511627776),
+ * %P (for petabytes, or 1125899906842624 bytes),
+ * %E (for exabytes, or 1152921504606846976 bytes).

My apologies, I should have noticed this in your earlier mail. This could be updated to specifically refer to the "bi"nary prefixes rather than the old SI-conflicting names:
kibibyte, mebibyte, gibibyte, tebibyte, pebibyte, and exbibyte

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