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From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
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Subject: Re: get/put unaligned helpers
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On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Boaz Harrosh wrote:

> Speaking of which. When all this is done do you intend to also export
> the unaligned.h headers to user-mode just like the aligned Endian helpers?
> 
> That could help in a couple of projects, so you have my vote.

 Why would you need that?  GCC provides a portable, platform-independent 
way.  It has had it for ten years at the very least.

  Maciej