Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Sergei Organov wrote: > >> IMHO aligned(N) should be used in portable code only to *increase* >> alignment (this effectively excludes usage of 'packed'), and then the >> alignment won't affect the low-level operations, that automatically >> answers your question. Simple? > > If you don't consider the alignment attribute to be part of the type, then > you can indeed express "16-bit-little-endian-unsigned-integer-unaligned" > as a C type. In fact __le16 expresses it perfectly all except for the > "unaligned" part, which you agree doesn't belong in the type.
How does it express the little-endian part? Just by the 'le' in its name? I'd like a variable of type __le16 to be converted to native endianness when assigned to, say, an int variable (and vise versa). Besides, the 'bitwise' tricks are not C, so if we stay in C, the __le16 is basically something like 'unsigned short' that does not express more than '16-bit-unsigned-integer'. -- Sergei. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
