Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: [patch 6/6] delete unused file | Date | Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:14:25 +0100 |
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Am Dienstag, 4. Januar 2005 22:03 schrieb Matt Mackall: > On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 05:13:00PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Sul, 2004-12-26 at 15:33, domen@coderock.org wrote: > > > Remove nowhere referenced file. (egrep "filename\." didn't find anything) > > > > This file is there for a reason - it completes the set of endian types > > should anyone port to a mixed endian system. > > Please name one such box that doesn't support a more sensible order > and is vaguely Linux-capable. The PDP-11 does not qualify, as it's > only 16-bit and could be made to DTRT for 32-bit values in the > compiler if you were going to go to the trouble of making "int" and > "void *" 32 bits on a 16-bit arch and then trying to fit the > resulting bloated code in the 4MB the later PDP-11s supported.
You don't a machine that will have the endianness. As long as you exchange data in that format, you'll have to convert endianness.
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