Re: Please do not yell at people for trying to help you.

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 08:31:39PM +0000, Eduardo Horvath wrote:
 > No it doesen't because all those macros assume the value is being 
 > transferred from one register to another rather than regiser to memory.  
 > The assignment:
 > 
 > foo.size = htole64(size);
 > 
 > Cannot be replaced with:
 > 
 > __inline __asm("stxa %1, [%0] ASI_LITLE" : &foo.size : size);

The right way to fix this is in the compiler; teach the compiler about
opposite-endian variables and let it pick the right instructions for
accessing them, and the problem goes away.

-- 
David A. Holland
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