On 03/29/10 15:13, Jason King wrote:
Speaking of such things, one thing I've been curious ever since reading the various Sparc architecture manuals, is (if I understood and remember them correctly -- it's been a while now), you can load a 16, 32, or 64-bit value and using an appropriate ASI have it do an endian conversion for you (and that this can work for both kernel and user contexts, though perhaps different ASIs might be needed depending on the context). Is there any reason those couldn't/shouldn't be used?
I don't know of any... they're awkward to use in most cases; coding some higher level routines may help. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance bart.smaald...@oracle.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird." _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
