Re: [PATCH] x86 byteorder.h: use __asm__/__inline__ for userspace

H. Peter Anvin
2008-12-27T18:59:09Z

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
> I wnet with the scripted conversion for now.
> If that does not fly we can come back to this proposal.
>
> What I like most with the auto conversion is that we avoid
> adding yet another special rule about how to do stuff in exported headers.
>

Indeed, and being keyword conversion, it's independent of context, at
least as long as one doesn't have too many run-ins with weird uses of
the # and ## preprocessor operators, which are a *lot* easier to rule
out globally.

-hpa

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