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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 01/10] Generate headers with arch-specific
	structs.
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:45:32 +0100
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Hollis Blanchard wrote:
>> No.  It's because (a) I don't have a working cross compiler and (b)
>> because it's the only bigendian architecture, so just generating those
>> headers isn't enough to have any other (xen-supported) architectures
>> access powerpc structs correctly.  So I decided to just leave it as-is
>> for now.  It certaily can be added, feel free to send patches ;) 
> 
> Hmm, that's ambitious. What exactly is your use case? If it's 32-on-64,
> no endianness code is required, right?

That is the only one for now, yes, and it works fine without
byteswapping ...

cheers,
  Gerd

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