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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: dtc: Address an assortment of portability problems
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:25:28AM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:03:49AM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> > 	- the endian handling functions in libfdt_env.h, based on
> > endian.h and byteswap.h are replaced with some portable open-coded
> > versions.  Unfortunately, these result in fairly crappy code when
> > compiled, but as far as I can determine there doesn't seem to be any
> > POSIX, SUS or de facto standard way of determining endianness at
> > compile time, nor standard names for byteswapping functions.
> 
> Since device-tree and network byte order happen to be the same, we could use
> ntohl/htonl.

Not for the 64-bit version.

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