Re: A question about architecture and byte order with RPMs

["Greg Chesson" <greg@xtp.engr.sgi.com>]

On Dec 4, 12:04pm, Alex deVries wrote:
> Subject: Re: A question about architecture and byte order with RPMs


> > It requires
> > going through _all_ the kernel code and possibly fixing the byteorder
> > handling.
>
> Nobody wants that.
>

I've been asking the compiler people for a storage class modifier that could
be added to type declarations.  The modifier would indicate whether the
data object is stored in big-endian or little-endian format.
The compiler would generate byte swizzles or not, depending on whether
the native execution mode agrees with the indicated storage class.

Perhaps the GCC world, being somewhat more enlightened, could do something
in this area (or perhaps already is thinking about it?).

g