Vicent MartÃ:
I'm aware of that, but Git needs to build with glibc 2.7+ (or was it
2.6?), hence the need for this compat layer.
Right. But perhaps the compatibility layer could provide the
functionality with the names available in the later glibc versions
(and on *BSD)? That would make it ea
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Peter Krefting wrote:
> endian(3) claims that glibc 2.9+ define be64toh() and htobe64() which should
> do what you are looking for. The manual page does mention them being named
> differently across OSes, though, so you may need to be careful with that.
I'm aware
Vicent Marti:
The POSIX standard doesn't currently define a `nothll`/`htonll`
function pair to perform network-to-host and host-to-network swaps
of 64-bit data. These 64-bit swaps are necessary for the on-disk
storage of EWAH bitmaps if they are not in native byte order.
endian(3) claims tha
The POSIX standard doesn't currently define a `nothll`/`htonll`
function pair to perform network-to-host and host-to-network
swaps of 64-bit data. These 64-bit swaps are necessary for the on-disk
storage of EWAH bitmaps if they are not in native byte order.
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git-compat-util.h | 28 +++
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