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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] byteorder: add load/store_{endian} API
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On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> 
> store_le16 is a new API and is added to be symmetric with the unaligned
> functions.

This seems to be expressly designed to be unsafe, in that it casts the 
thing to the right type, making it impossible for sparse to warn about 
bad byteorder use.

		Linus