linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ubi: kill homegrown endian macros

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Message-ID: <464CB8A9.9030700@goop.org>
Date:	Thu, 17 May 2007 13:18:49 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, dedekind@...radead.org,
	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ubi: kill homegrown endian macros

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>  The attribute syntax is perfecltly
> find to address endianess issues without introducing wrapper structs the
> lead to horrible code generation in some situations (e.g. trying to return
> such a value)

Small structs are returned in register; it is indistinguishable from
returning a scalar.

    J
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