On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 13:17:17 +0200, Ján Tomko wrote: > On a Friday in 2020, Peter Krempa wrote: > > Clarify which bit is considered most significant in the bitmap and > > resulting string. Also be explicit that it's a hex string. > > > > Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > src/util/virbitmap.c | 13 +++++++++---- > > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/src/util/virbitmap.c b/src/util/virbitmap.c > > index ad5213f216..fcb8e1101a 100644 > > --- a/src/util/virbitmap.c > > +++ b/src/util/virbitmap.c > > @@ -328,7 +328,9 @@ virBitmapGetBit(virBitmapPtr bitmap, > > * virBitmapToString: > > * @bitmap: Pointer to bitmap > > * > > - * Convert @bitmap to printable string. > > + * Convert @bitmap to printable hexadecimal string representation. Note that bit > > + * with highest position/index in @bitmap are considered as most significant bit > > + * in the output string. > > the bits ... are considered > or > the bit ... is considered oops, I've rewrote it halfway through ... > > would mentioning that it is printed at the leftmost position be clearer? Well, the thing is that the leftmost digit in the output string represents more than one bit since it's hex. I thought about some wordign but couldn't come up with anything more appropriate. We could do: 'is considered as the most significant bit of the number represented by the output string', or just 'most significant bit of the output number". That way the reader knows it's a number and the semantics of the bit are then implicit.
