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Date:      Fri, 04 Apr 2003 08:55:58 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:    Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys endian.h src/share/man/man9 byteorder.9 
Message-ID:  <5567.1049439358@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Apr 2003 15:49:08 -0800." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0304031545540.15187-100000@root.org> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0304031545540.15187-100000@root.org>, Nate Lawson wri
tes:
>On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>   Modified files:
>>     sys/sys              endian.h 
>>     share/man/man9       byteorder.9 
>>   Log:
>>   Add inline functions {be,le}{16,32,64}{enc,dec}() for encoding decoding
>>   into byte strings of unknown alignment.
>>   
>>   Revision  Changes    Path
>>   1.3       +39 -1     src/share/man/man9/byteorder.9
>>   1.3       +108 -0    src/sys/sys/endian.h
>
>This is really great!  I have wanted this for a while.  Just a few
>questions.  Have the standards folks had a look at the API?  Second, it
>appears the *enc functions have args in reverse order (void *, uint32_t
>for example).  Any thoughts on bcopy vs. memcpy ordering of args?

I don't particularly care about the order, so if there is a concensus
for one order over the other I'll just change it.

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