Re: [patch 6/6] delete unused file

[Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>]

Am Dienstag, 4. Januar 2005 22:03 schrieb Matt Mackall:
> On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 05:13:00PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Sul, 2004-12-26 at 15:33, domen@coderock.org wrote:
> > > Remove nowhere referenced file. (egrep "filename\." didn't find anything)
> > 
> > This file is there for a reason - it completes the set of endian types
> > should anyone port to a mixed endian system.
> 
> Please name one such box that doesn't support a more sensible order
> and is vaguely Linux-capable. The PDP-11 does not qualify, as it's
> only 16-bit and could be made to DTRT for 32-bit values in the
> compiler if you were going to go to the trouble of making "int" and
> "void *" 32 bits on a 16-bit arch and then trying to fit the
> resulting bloated code in the 4MB the later PDP-11s supported.

You don't a machine that will have the endianness. As long as you exchange
data in that format, you'll have to convert endianness.

	Regards
		Oliver