On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 20:03 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > Hi, > > The following patch adds big endian version of ld_/st_ macros > and converts core 8xx code to use them. > > Other than making IO accesses explicit (which is a plus for > readability), a common set of macros provides a unified place for the > volatile flag to constraint compiler code reordering. > > There are several unlucky places at the moment which lack the > volatile flag.
I'm not fan of the approach. You should use in_/out_ macros for IOs. If you don't need eieio on 8xx , then just #ifdef it out of the implementation of these. Ben.
