From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
domen@coderock.org, akpm@osdl.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 6/6] delete unused file
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:14:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200501042214.25912.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050104210342.GA2995@waste.org>
Am Dienstag, 4. Januar 2005 22:03 schrieb Matt Mackall:
> On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 05:13:00PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Sul, 2004-12-26 at 15:33, domen@coderock.org wrote:
> > > Remove nowhere referenced file. (egrep "filename\." didn't find anything)
> >
> > This file is there for a reason - it completes the set of endian types
> > should anyone port to a mixed endian system.
>
> Please name one such box that doesn't support a more sensible order
> and is vaguely Linux-capable. The PDP-11 does not qualify, as it's
> only 16-bit and could be made to DTRT for 32-bit values in the
> compiler if you were going to go to the trouble of making "int" and
> "void *" 32 bits on a 16-bit arch and then trying to fit the
> resulting bloated code in the 4MB the later PDP-11s supported.
You don't a machine that will have the endianness. As long as you exchange
data in that format, you'll have to convert endianness.
Regards
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-04 21:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-26 15:33 [patch 6/6] delete unused file domen
2004-12-26 17:13 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-04 21:03 ` Matt Mackall
2005-01-04 21:14 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2005-01-06 16:30 ` Alan Cox
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