Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com> writes:

I will add quad to -03 anyway. If you get a few +1 on hexquad, I am against adding that, as well.

Quad is a standard term for "64 bit integer" in C/C++. For example: $ grep -c quad /usr/src/sys/netinet6/*|awk -F: '{tot+=$2} END{print tot}' 171 which is to say, the kame derived ipv6 stack on this machine uses one of the *quad_t types 171 times. Ambiguating usages like "Take the least signifigant quad of that ipv6 address" to mean either 16 bits or 64 bits, when it currently is unamibigously 64 bits won't make the lives of C/C++ programmers writing IPv6 code any easier.