Re: __LITTLE_ENDIAN vs. __LITTLE_ENDIAN_BITFIELD

From: Timur Tabi
Date: Fri Oct 05 2007 - 16:07:46 EST


Andreas Schwab wrote:

The bit mapping on your device is strictly internal to the device and
has nothing to do with bit order on the C level.

Then I don't understand that point of defining __LITTLE_ENDIAN_BITFIELD. What does it mean for a C-level bitfield ordering to be little-endian if the processor is BIG_ENDIAN?

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Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale
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