Re: iso9660 endianness cleanup patch

H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-01T18:44:24Z

hpa@transmeta.com wrote:
>
> Oh bother, you're right of course. We need some kind of standardized
> macro for indirecting through a potentially unaligned pointer. It can
> just do the dereference (e.g. x86), use left/right accesses (e.g. MIPS),
> or do it by byte (others).
>
> Ports people, what do you think?
>

My, my, my... I'm really 100% alert this morning. Before anyone clues me
in, I did find <asm/unaligned.h> when I actually bothered looking. New
patch in the making.

-hpa

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