Is this LOST??

[John Baldwin]

On Sunday 02 May 2004 01:26 am, Deng XueFeng wrote:
> I found the htonl implemention in libc for i386 is not sync with the
> kern.
>
> sys use bswap for swaping the int. but libc still use xchg.
> IS THIS LOST?

It's because libc still supports 80386 which doesn't have bswap (introduced on 
the 486 IIRC).  The kernel only supports 486+ unless you explicitly build an 
80386 kernel, which won't use bswap for htonl().

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