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Cc: threads@freebsd.org, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>,
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Subject: Re: [Patch] C1X threading support
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"O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> writes:
> How is the other BSD sibbling, NetBSD, dealing with such things? NetBSD
> is supposed to run on a trmendous variety of hardware, even a mixture of
> bigendian and littleenddian and I'm quite sure they must have overcome
> this probleme anyway.

The same way FreeBSD does: where ordering matters, use explicit
conversions when reading and writing.  The conversion functions / macros
are defined in such a manner that unnecessary conversions (e.g. host to
little-endian on a little-endian system) do not generate any code at
all.  The only downside is that you can't directly compare variables
unless you're certain that they're both in host order.

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