[Box Backup] endian.h on Linux

[Ben Summers]

On 29 Sep 2004, at 08:38, Martin Ebourne wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 06:47, Per Thomsen wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Just compiled 0.08 on Linux, and I get warnings (things seem to work),
>> from the compiler that including /usr/include/asm/bytecode.h is not
>> cool, and that endian.h should be used instead.
>
> Yes, that happens on x86 with the 2.6 kernel for me too. It does not
> happen with x86_64 even though it's the same setup.
>
> At a glance it looked like endian.h didn't contain the functions used,
> though I didn't actually try it. I was planning to get around to that
> sometime. As you say, it doesn't prevent it from actually working
> currently.

You're right. If the lovely Linux developers would provide the 64 bit 
byte swapping function in a header I'm supposed to use, then I will 
gladly use it instead. Until then, I will be using the kernel header.

Ben