[Patch] C1X threading support

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Dec 19 10:57:24 UTC 2011


In message <201112191152.22907.tijl at coosemans.org>, Tijl Coosemans writes:

>> Big/Little Endian API ?
>>
>> Naah, nobody moves binary data between computers.
>
>Yes, but rather than having the programmer remember when to swap bytes,
>it would be better if he could just declare a variable big/little
>endian and have the compiler figure it out.

You'd think so, wouldn't you ?

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