> Hmmm, can this scheme actually work out properly on both big and > little endian? Because endianness determines whether the bits start > in the "lower addressed" 32-bit word or the "higher addressed" 32-bit > word. True, it needs an ifdef, with the other order in BE. struct page has that iirc. > > If this trick is being attempted elsewhere, I think it could perhaps > account for some strange bugs :-) Well if you want to be sure better try to get rid of the void * (I tried early on in x86-64, it caused a lot of warnings all over) -Andi -- ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html