Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 18:43:51 -0700 From: "Sam Leffler" <sam@errno.com> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org>, "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@FreeBSD.org> Cc: <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/geom geom.h geom_enc.c Message-ID: <319501c25b90$2df2cba0$52557f42@errno.com> References: <200209131033.g8DAXA0q006395@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020914013012.GU25003@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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> On Friday, 13 September 2002 at 3:33:10 -0700, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > phk 2002/09/13 03:33:10 PDT
> >
> > Modified files:
> > sys/geom geom.h geom_enc.c
> > Log:
> > Add a couple more of the big/little-endian conversion routines and
make
> > them visible from userland, if need be.
> >
> > I wish that the C language contained this as part of struct
definintions,
> > but failing that, I would settle for an agreed upon set of functions
for
> > packing/unpacking integers in various sizes from byte-streams which
may
> > have unfriendly alignment.
>
> Is there any reason not to use the Linux function names (be32_to_cpu,
> cpu_to_le16, etc.)?
>
netbsd+openbsd define macros in <sys/endian.h> that would be useful to have
for driver portability.
Sam
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