Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:34:59 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] byteorder: force in-place endian conversion to always evaluate args |
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On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 09:33:41AM -0700, Harvey Harrison wrote: > David Miller reported breakage in ide when the in-place byteorder helpers > were used as the macros do not always evaluate their args which led to > an infinite loop. > > Just make them functions to ensure they always do so.
Of course the best thing would be to kill these macros entirely. In-place endianess conversions are bad idea.
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