On 10/07/2016 10:31 AM, Alexey Brodkin wrote: >> They are ugly I agree - but not portable - really ? The whole point is to make >> > this work on BE w/o changing the src code - this details remains hidden in an >> > obscure header. > That's what I learned the hard way. > At least I was beaten a couple of times yet in both Linux kernel community and > U-Boot > one. Beaten for writing code like above - please point me to those discussions. I'd love to be educated in art of writing portable code !