Re: [PATCH] ubi: kill homegrown endian macros

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>]

On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 00:00 +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> It's not the compiler who decides -- struct layout is
> dictated by the ABI you're compiling for.

This is true in the case of externally-visible stuff. I think the
compiler is permitted to violate the ABI for purely unit-internal things
if it makes sense though, isn't it?

Besides, in the case of the Linux kernel the ABI in question could be
one of many. It could even be a new one which was added a couple of
weeks ago, and which I had no _chance_ of considering.

The rule stands -- empirical testing of what the compiler will do isn't
usually the right answer.

-- 
dwmw2

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/