[Patch] C1X threading support

[O. Hartmann]

On 12/19/11 18:09, Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> On Dec 19, 2011, at 3:57 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
>> 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 ?
> 
> Intel has a compiler that allows one to declare things are big or little endian and then things work.  A certain large router vendor used it to port its software that was big endian only at a very deep layer to Intel x86...
> 
> Linux marks things as beXX or leXX and uses static analysis to prevent mixing.
> 
> There's a lot of prior art for the committee to choose from.
> 
> Warner
> 

A silly question:

How is the other BSD sibbling, NetBSD, dealing with such things? NetBSD
is supposed to run on a trmendous variety of hardware, even a mixture of
bigendian and littleenddian and I'm quite sure they must have overcome
this probleme anyway.

Regrads,
Oliver

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