Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 16:10:56 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> To: Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, Fabien Thomas <fabient@freebsd.org>, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [CFR] mge driver / elf reloc Message-ID: <20140720231056.GQ45513@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <F6D53A17-FED0-4F08-BB5B-9F66C5AF5EF6@kientzle.com> References: <14D22EA6-B73C-47BA-9A86-A957D24F23B8@freebsd.org> <1405810447.85788.41.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <20140720220514.GP45513@funkthat.com> <F6D53A17-FED0-4F08-BB5B-9F66C5AF5EF6@kientzle.com>
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Tim Kientzle wrote this message on Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 15:25 -0700:
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> On Jul 20, 2014, at 3:05 PM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> wrote:
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> > Ian Lepore wrote this message on Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 16:54 -0600:
> >> Sorry to take so long to reply to this, I'm trying to get caught up. I
> >> see you've already committed the mge fixes. I think the ELF alignment
> >> fix looks good and should also be committed.
> >
> > So, re the elf alignment...
> >
> > I think we should get a set of macros that handle load/stores to/from
> > unaligned addresses that are transparent to the caller.... I need
> > these for some other code I'm writing...
> >
> > I thought Open/Net had these available, but I can't seem to find them
> > right now...
>
> $ man 9 byteorder
>
> is most of what you want, lacking only some aliases to pick
> the correct macro for native byte order.
Um, those doesn't help if you want native endian order...
Also, only the enc/dec functions are documented to work on non-aligned
address, so that doesn't help in most cases...
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