[parted-devel] Could someone please look into this?

[Phillip Susi]

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On 1/13/2012 3:42 PM, ben wrote:
> Well, that fixed it! Thank you.
> 
> But why is that needed? I specified constraint=any so why is it
> still applying A constriant I didn't ask for? It is even more
> confusing since the function for adding a new partition seems to
> ignore that constraint and will put it where I ask it to.

Because the msdos partition table aligns to cylinder boundaries by
default for backward compatibility.

> Also, the docs say to use this to get the first flag:
> 
> PedDiskFlag fg = ped_disk_flag_next(0);
> 
> 
> However I get this error with g++:
> 
> partchange.cpp:219:42: error: invalid conversion from ‘int’ to
> ‘PedDiskFlag {aka _PedDiskFlag}’ [-fpermissive]
> 
> I needed: ped_disk_get_flag(PED_DISK_FIRST_FLAG) to get the first
> one.

Because in C++ implicit conversion from an integer to an enum is not
allowed.  Use (PedDiskFlag)0 instead.

> lastly, I couldn't find anything about the names of flags in the
> Doxygen file. I used ped_disk_flag_next() to iterate through them
> to find  "cylinder_alignment."
> 
> Thank you.

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