Re: Confuse with big endian bitwise field

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On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 18:20 +0800, Li YanBo wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> I am try  to define a hardware specific struct, it is like below:
> 
> struct xxx {
>         __be32 pdu_cnt:6;
>         __be32 y:3;
>         __be32 wep_key:2;
>         __be32 uses_wep_key:1;
>         __be32 keep_alive:1;
>         __be32 buff_tail_addr:19;
> 
>         __be32 cts_11g:1;
>         __be32 rts_11g:1;
>         __be32 x:2;
>         __be32 frag_size:12;
>         __be32 payload_len:12;
>         __be32 frag_num:4;
> }

this isn't safe if you want to mimic hardware layout; the order of the
bits in the struct is different for little endian and big endian
machines...

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