> Modified Files: > src/share/man/man9: byteorder.9 > > Log Message: > Reference bswap(3). Improvements in the HISTORY section. : > cvs rdiff -u -r1.4 -r1.5 src/share/man/man9/byteorder.9
>> -These functions were introduced to handle PCI bus master devices which >> assumed >> -host's memory used to pass integer parameters via DMA transfer was >> -always little endian even on big endian systems. : >> +The functions were originally introduced to handle >> +.Tn PCI >> +bus master devices, which assumed little endian byte order in >> +.Tn DMA >> +transfers, even on big endian systems. There are a few PCI bus master devices that are big endian aware (epic(4) for example), so I don't think it's appropriate to add commas around the which clause. --- Izumi Tsutsui (who put a dumb sentence in the initial revision)