bitops and endianness

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Wed, 4 Feb 1998 13:28:42 +0100 (CET)

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Wouldn't it be better to declare the bitops to take a pointer to an unsigned
long, instead of a void *? Then we would at least get a warning when a little
endian guy does bitops on a char.

Greetings,

Geert

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