Re: [PATCH] ubi: kill homegrown endian macros

[Al Viro]

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:14:26PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On 5/17/07, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
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