linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] lib/ext2fs/bitops.h: Use the optmized/documented byteswapping routines

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Message-ID: <20130114142005.GC12052@thunk.org>
Date:	Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:20:05 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@...nsuse.org>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/ext2fs/bitops.h: Use the optmized/documented
 byteswapping routines

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 09:13:56AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> The problem is that bswap_{16,32,64}() and the existence of
> <byteswap.h> is not guaranted by any standard that I'm not aware of.
> A quick Google search indicates that it's not available for the
> following platforms....

P.S.  This "all the world's a Linux platforms" attitude is why a lot
of people are very snide about how many Linux userspace programmers
will introduced vast bloated, slow, infuriating autoconf and automake
infrastructure, and then use Linux'isms that completely break all
portability for anything other than Linux systems....  at which point,
why bother using autoconf and automake?

	    		       	    	  - Ted
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