Re: __LITTLE_ENDIAN vs. __LITTLE_ENDIAN_BITFIELD

From: Timur Tabi
Date: Tue Oct 09 2007 - 14:57:25 EST


Krzysztof Halasa wrote:

There is no such thing as bit-order.

Yes, there is. You need to read the article at http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6788. Explains what it means for bits to be in one order versus another. This is from the perspective of external devices, not the CPU (which is always consistent with regards to bit order)


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Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale
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