Re: FRV/ARM unaligned access question

From: Russell King
Date: Wed Oct 08 2008 - 03:36:09 EST


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.

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Russell King
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