[libvirt] [PATCH] Missing htonl (etc) on MinGW

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Tue Jul 8 18:07:19 UTC 2008


On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 07:43:07PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > +#ifndef _PORTABLEXDR_BYTESWAP_H
> > +#define _PORTABLEXDR_BYTESWAP_H 1
> 
> A different name file name might be nice, so this file is not
> confused (by people) with the system-provided <byteswap.h>.
> Maybe byteswap-pxdr.h or something similar.
> 
> ...
> > +#if BYTE_ORDER == BIG_ENDIAN
> > +  return x;
> > +#elif BYTE_ORDER == LITTLE_ENDIAN
> > +  return __bswap_32 (x);
> > +#else
> > +# error "What kind of system is this?"
> > +#endif
> 
> Where is BYTE_ORDER defined?  normally in endian.h.
> More curiosity than anything, since I'm sure it works
> everywhere you built it.  I sort of expected to
> see an "#include <endian.h>" somewhere.

Ugh, yes, excessive copy and paste.

I think a better approach is to contribute these as a module for
Gnulib anyway.

Rich.

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