Re: le32_to_cpu() help...

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Fri, 05 Nov 1999 18:25:29 -0500

In message <19991105033224.A2612@uni-koblenz.de>, Ralf Baechle writes:
+-----
| > 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...
|
| Honeywell had 9-bit based machines, that is longs / pointer were 36 bit.
+--->8

PDP-10 had 36-bit words as well. But I don't think they subdivided into
9-bit chunks (although they did subdivide into 6-bit chunks for i.e.
filenames, which were stored in SIXBIT).

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