On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Marco d'Itri <md@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You made alpha users sad.
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Michael Cree <mcree@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -----
>
> From: Michael Cree <mcree@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ../depmod.c:1312
> (gdb) list
> 200 int __attribute__ ((pure)) native_endianness()
> 201 {
> 202 /* Encoding the endianness enums in a string and then reading that
> 203 * string as a 32-bit int, returns the correct endianness
> automagically.
> 204 */
> 205 return (char) *((uint32_t*)("\1\0\0\2"));
> 206 }
>
>
> Yeah, nice programming guys. Allocate a string, i.e. an array of
> char, which the compiler will merely byte align and then read it
> back as a long word which must be long word aligned. And the
> programmer thinks he is so smart that he descibes it
> as "automagically"! Doh.
There's no reason to be rude.
/Andreas
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