Re: iso9660 endianness cleanup patch

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Tue, 01 May 2001 14:06:41 -0700

Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Tue, 1 May 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >
> > Oh bother, you're right of course. We need some kind of standardized
> > macro for indirecting through a potentially unaligned pointer.
>
> No we don't - because it already exists.
>
> It's called "get_unaligned()".
>

Well, we presumably do need it since it's there. I *did* correct this
brain fault of mine a few hours ago.

Note that it might still be an idea to have get_unaligned_le32() & co...
on some machines le32_to_cpu(get_unaligned()) could potentially be a lot
more painful than it needs to be.

-hpa

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