Timur Tabi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then I don't understand that point of defining __LITTLE_ENDIAN_BITFIELD. > What does it mean for a C-level bitfield ordering to be little-endian if > the processor is BIG_ENDIAN?
Byte endianess and bit endianness are orthogonal concecpts. A cpu can have insns using both little and big endian bit addressing (btst vs. bftst on m68k). The bitfield ordering is a property of the ABI and may even be different from how the cpu numbers the bits in its ISA. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
