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Re: AC_C_BIGENDIAN vs. Darwin
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Russ Allbery |
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Re: AC_C_BIGENDIAN vs. Darwin |
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25 Jun 2001 16:49:07 -0700 |
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Mike Castle <address@hidden> writes:
> Personally, I'd vote for getting rid of AC_C_BIGENDIAN. No need to in
> supporting poor programming.
I use it to allow more optimized versions of algorithms like MD5 where you
can skip additional memory copies on hosts with some endianness. I'd be
pretty unhappy if it disappeared.
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Russ Allbery (address@hidden) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>