From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 3 10:50:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24C0416A4CF for ; Mon, 3 May 2004 10:50:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail2.speakeasy.net (mail2.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACA7643D31 for ; Mon, 3 May 2004 10:50:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 11636 invoked from network); 3 May 2004 17:50:49 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 3 May 2004 17:50:49 -0000 Received: from 10.50.40.205 (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i43HoiFl056848; Mon, 3 May 2004 13:50:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 13:22:37 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <20040502132115.C583.DSNOFE@hotmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20040502132115.C583.DSNOFE@hotmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405031322.37241.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: Deng XueFeng Subject: Re: Is this LOST?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 17:50:51 -0000 On Sunday 02 May 2004 01:26 am, Deng XueFeng wrote: > I found the htonl implemention in libc for i386 is not sync with the > kern. > > sys use bswap for swaping the int. but libc still use xchg. > IS THIS LOST? It's because libc still supports 80386 which doesn't have bswap (introduced on the 486 IIRC). The kernel only supports 486+ unless you explicitly build an 80386 kernel, which won't use bswap for htonl(). -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org