Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 10:40:55 +0200 From: Fabien Thomas <fabient@freebsd.org> To: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CFR] mge driver / elf reloc Message-ID: <BDFA451C-D74E-4EA7-B1BA-F818E98AB372@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20140720231056.GQ45513@funkthat.com> References: <14D22EA6-B73C-47BA-9A86-A957D24F23B8@freebsd.org> <1405810447.85788.41.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <20140720220514.GP45513@funkthat.com> <F6D53A17-FED0-4F08-BB5B-9F66C5AF5EF6@kientzle.com> <20140720231056.GQ45513@funkthat.com>
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On 21 Jul 2014, at 01:10, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> wrote: > Tim Kientzle wrote this message on Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 15:25 -0700: >>=20 >> On Jul 20, 2014, at 3:05 PM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> = wrote: >>=20 >>> Ian Lepore wrote this message on Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 16:54 -0600: >>>> Sorry to take so long to reply to this, I'm trying to get caught = up. I >>>> see you've already committed the mge fixes. I think the ELF = alignment >>>> fix looks good and should also be committed. >>>=20 >>> So, re the elf alignment... >>>=20 >>> I think we should get a set of macros that handle load/stores = to/from >>> unaligned addresses that are transparent to the caller.... I need >>> these for some other code I'm writing...=20 >>>=20 >>> I thought Open/Net had these available, but I can't seem to find = them >>> right now... >>=20 >> $ man 9 byteorder >>=20 >> is most of what you want, lacking only some aliases to pick >> the correct macro for native byte order. >=20 > Um, those doesn't help if you want native endian order... >=20 > Also, only the enc/dec functions are documented to work on non-aligned > address, so that doesn't help in most cases... Yes, having an API to read unaligned pointer is better than than using = local fix like in the patch. Tell me if you add one and I can adapt the patch. Fabien >=20 > --=20 > John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 >=20 > "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."
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