[CFR] mge driver / elf reloc

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20140722041517.M3229 at besplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes:

>This seems to make most of byteorder(9) a mistake.  Just about everything
>can be done better using memcpy() and standard functions in byteorder(3),

Covered by Bruce' "just about" is that code analysers like Coverity
and FlexeLint cannot see through his proposed version of the macros
on little-endian architectures because of the inline assembler used
to access the exchange instructions which the C-compiler do not expose.

Analysers have no such problems with the pure-C versions there today.

The real fault is with the ISO-C people who still lives in a world
where endianess doesn't exist.

If they had done their job sensibly, variables, including members
of structs, could be declared as having a specific storage-layout.

My theory is that they confident the PDP-10 and CRAY-1 are just
about to make a comeback...

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