Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Nov 1999 10:46:06 +0100 | From | Jakub Jelinek <> | Subject | Re: le32_to_cpu() help... |
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On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 04:27:54AM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > On 3 Nov 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > Followup to: <19991102114522.E525@mff.cuni.cz> > > By author: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> > [le32_to_cpu() and cpu_to_le32()] > > > > Both macros do the same thing on all *currently supported* > > architectures. One never know when a funny thing from Mars shows up; > > perhaps a 48-bit architecture, who knows... > > ;-) NIUX problem?
No, NUXI/PDP endian conversion is ok as well, it works both ways the same. But hpa is of course right that we never know what will come up.
Cheers, Jakub ___________________________________________________________________ Jakub Jelinek | jakub@redhat.com | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/~jj Linux version 2.3.18 on a sparc64 machine (1343.49 BogoMips) ___________________________________________________________________
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