From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Li YanBo <dreamfly281@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
Subject: Re: Confuse with big endian bitwise field
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 07:39:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1183041556.14676.13.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1197ff4c0706260320t648dba53ga7e3eed745293e9a@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 18:20 +0800, Li YanBo wrote:
> hi all,
>
> I am try to define a hardware specific struct, it is like below:
>
> struct xxx {
> __be32 pdu_cnt:6;
> __be32 y:3;
> __be32 wep_key:2;
> __be32 uses_wep_key:1;
> __be32 keep_alive:1;
> __be32 buff_tail_addr:19;
>
> __be32 cts_11g:1;
> __be32 rts_11g:1;
> __be32 x:2;
> __be32 frag_size:12;
> __be32 payload_len:12;
> __be32 frag_num:4;
> }
this isn't safe if you want to mimic hardware layout; the order of the
bits in the struct is different for little endian and big endian
machines...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-28 14:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-26 10:20 Confuse with big endian bitwise field Li YanBo
2007-06-26 18:09 ` Kristof Provost
2007-06-28 14:39 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2007-06-28 14:59 ` Li YanBo
2007-06-28 15:25 ` Ranjan Sinha
2007-07-03 4:12 ` Li YanBo
2007-07-10 3:58 ` Li YanBo
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