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From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:09:53AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> On Dec 19, 2011, at 3:57 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> > 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 ?
> 
> Intel has a compiler that allows one to declare things are big or little endian and then things work.  A certain large router vendor used it to port its software that was big endian only at a very deep layer to Intel x86...
> 
> Linux marks things as beXX or leXX and uses static analysis to prevent mixing.
> 
> There's a lot of prior art for the committee to choose from.

and that would be the definition of a blacklist, right ? :)

	cheers
	luigi