Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:18:49 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Nate Lawson <njl@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64 bit endian routines Message-ID: <20030228041849.GB813@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20030227223058.G93968@espresso.bsdmike.org> References: <200302280324.h1S3OndV078007@freefall.freebsd.org> <20030227223058.G93968@espresso.bsdmike.org>
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On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:30:58PM -0500, Mike Barcroft wrote: > > Most of these could probably be implemented in terms of the __bswap*() > functions in <machine/endian.h>, except for vendor sources like > openssl, and htonl and ntohl which already are. I'm not sure if there > would be an advantage to moving the geom byte ordering functions to > <sys/endian.h> (I guess phk didn't either). The geom functions serve a primary purpose of dealing with random alignment of fields. The endianness has been added later, so they now serve a dual function. Do not unify them with byte-order only functions. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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