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Date:      Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:17:13 -0800
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To:        Nate Lawson <njl@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        mike@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 64 bit endian routines
Message-ID:  <20030228051713.GA1062@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net>
In-Reply-To: <200302280445.h1S4jifs099792@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <20030228041849.GB813@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <200302280445.h1S4jifs099792@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:45:44PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote:
> 
> Both scsi and geom implement unaligned access functions that perform byte
> ordering.  I never intended to supplant them with __bswap*().  What I want
> is for machine/endian.h to have functions that provide 16-64 bit endian
> conversions in both aligned and unaligned access forms.  After these functions
> are there, I'd like us to unify use of them and remove driver-private
> versions.
> 
> Is this more clear now?

Crystal :-)

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net

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