Re: [PATCH] x86 byteorder.h: use __asm__/__inline__ for userspace

[H. Peter Anvin]

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> I wnet with the scripted conversion for now.
> If that does not fly we can come back to this proposal.
> 
> What I like most with the auto conversion is that we avoid
> adding yet another special rule about how to do stuff in exported headers.
> 

Indeed, and being keyword conversion, it's independent of context, at
least as long as one doesn't have too many run-ins with weird uses of
the # and ## preprocessor operators, which are a *lot* easier to rule
out globally.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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