After a recent problem in the x86 tree, which seems to be the heaviest but not the only user of these functions, I went through and did a patchset to revamp the *user space* unaligned/endian accessor functions. As much as I think it is downright pathetic that this functionality still isn't part of the C standard, that is life and we have to deal with it. Furthermore, although glibc has a pretty nice set of functions for byte swapping in <endian.h>, taken from FreeBSD I believe, some older systems don't support them. This variant tries to fill in all the holes. It assumes that <endian.h> define the functions as macros if they exist, as I don't know any other way of probing for them without reaching for autoconf, but that should be valid enough of an assumption in this case. The hope is that this should give reasonable, if not optimal, code generation on most processors, and give a hook where arch maintainers can add their own changes if needed. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
