[chord] what is mpz_get_raw and others

[Emil Sit]

On Tue, 27 March 2007 at 09:51 (+0800), zkfzle wrote:
>  I found in the database,the length of key/value pairs of inode
>  information usually larger than what it should be,about 10 bytes.What
>  had happened to them?

Content hash blocks are encoded as IDA fragments; the code to
extract them from the database format and reassemble it can
be found in client.C.

> mpz_get_raw appeared often.What is it?Is it the reason of the '10 bytes'?

This is a libgmp function that takes raw bytes and interprets it as
a big-endian integer.

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