Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 May 2007 22:29:13 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ubi: kill homegrown endian macros |
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On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:14:26PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On 5/17/07, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote: > > > >Ahem... So what does > > x |= y; > >turns into with that approach? > > Do we want to do such kind of operations on endian-annotated data? I'd > imagine you want to convert ot host-endianess first anyway.
Why? When both x and y are of the same type, it's a perfectly sane and safe operation. And yes, sparse checks handle that. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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