Re: __LITTLE_ENDIAN vs. __LITTLE_ENDIAN_BITFIELD

[Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>]

Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com> writes:
>
> > > There is no such thing as bit-order.
> > Yes, there is.  You need to read the article at
> > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6788.  Explains what it means for
> > bits to be in one order versus another.  This is from the perspective
> > of external devices, not the CPU (which is always consistent with
> > regards to bit order)
>
> Have you ever seen a device or platform with the bits reversed?

I think when the PowerPC is running in little-endian mode, that might be the 
case.  It needs to be able to write a byte in big-endian mode, and then read 
that byte back in little-endian mode and have it be the same byte.

--
Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale
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