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

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Message-Id: <20070517.135624.131107441.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 17 May 2007 13:56:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dedekind@...radead.org
Cc:	hch@....de, akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ubi: kill homegrown endian macros

From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@...radead.org>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 17:50:43 +0300

> Well, I see the good side of your change - no home-brewed media<->cpu
> things. Fair enough and nice. But why don't you make __be32 a struct
> (just like I do) so that compiler could complain then?

structs get passed on the stack instead of via registers, regardless
of size, when passed as arguments on some architectures, so there is a
terrible performance cost of doing things that way
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