cvs commit: src/sys/sys endian.h src/share/man/man9 byteorder.9

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0304031545540.15187-100000 at root.org>, Nate Lawson wri
tes:
>On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>   Modified files:
>>     sys/sys              endian.h 
>>     share/man/man9       byteorder.9 
>>   Log:
>>   Add inline functions {be,le}{16,32,64}{enc,dec}() for encoding decoding
>>   into byte strings of unknown alignment.
>>   
>>   Revision  Changes    Path
>>   1.3       +39 -1     src/share/man/man9/byteorder.9
>>   1.3       +108 -0    src/sys/sys/endian.h
>
>This is really great!  I have wanted this for a while.  Just a few
>questions.  Have the standards folks had a look at the API?  Second, it
>appears the *enc functions have args in reverse order (void *, uint32_t
>for example).  Any thoughts on bcopy vs. memcpy ordering of args?

I don't particularly care about the order, so if there is a concensus
for one order over the other I'll just change it.

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