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Date:      Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:57:21 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org>
Cc:        threads@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [Patch] C1X threading support
Message-ID:  <58923.1324292241@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:52:17 %2B0100." <201112191152.22907.tijl@coosemans.org>

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In message <201112191152.22907.tijl@coosemans.org>, Tijl Coosemans writes:

>> Big/Little Endian API ?
>>
>> Naah, nobody moves binary data between computers.
>
>Yes, but rather than having the programmer remember when to swap bytes,
>it would be better if he could just declare a variable big/little
>endian and have the compiler figure it out.

You'd think so, wouldn't you ?

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