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From: "Sam Leffler" <sam@errno.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/geom geom.h geom_enc.c
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 18:43:51 -0700
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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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