Re: video mem access with oskit-mach

[Roland McGrath]

> On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 04:09:37PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > > The conversion from signed shorts to unsigned shorts is implementation
> > > defined (or can raise a signal even), so I am out of luck here  (unless we
> > > forbid ports higher than 7fff).
> > 
> > Say what?  Conversions from one bitpattern (integer) type to another
> > bitpattern type of the same size are always fine.
> 
> Even cross platform (eg, over the network)?

You'd better be precise about what you are asking.