Re: FRV/ARM unaligned access question

From: Harvey Harrison
Date: Wed Oct 08 2008 - 03:36:36 EST


On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 08:35 +0100, Russell King wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 12:26:13AM -0700, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > I noticed that frv/arm are the only two arches that currently use open-coded
> > byteshifting routines for both the cpu endianness and the other endianness
> > whereas just about all the other arches use a packed-struct version for the
> > cpu-endian and then the byteshifting versions (lifted from arm) for the other
> > endianness.
>
> I'm sorry, I think you're mistaken. I've looked at x86, m68k and
> parisc, and they all use assembly for their swab functions in
> asm/byteorder.h.
>

Sorry, not talking about byteorder at the moment, talking about
unaligned.h.

Cheers,

Harvey

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