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Re: Endian swapping with C code on ARM
Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@gcc.gnu.org> writes:
> On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 19:15, Richard Henderson wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 05:39:41PM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote:
>> > I have trouble understanding the point of this frobbing.
>>
>> Well, for one, QImode is 32 bits on c4x, and SImode is 128 bits.
>
> Which means we have to be very careful to define what we mean by 'byte'
> swapping.
In the documentation I explicitely point out that "byte" always means
exactly 8 bit in this context. I think that's most useful considering
what bswap would be used for.
--
Falk