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From: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [sparc] Weird ioctl() bug in 2.2.19 (fwd)
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On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Alex Buell wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> 
> > > Anyway, I can fix it now by adding the appropriate AFMT_S16_BE statement
> > > guarded by a #ifdef but this sucks. Thanks to Peter Jones who spotted this
> > > one.
> >
> > Why can't you just use AFMT_S16_NE on all platforms?  That is supposed
> > to be equal to AFMT_S16_BE on big-endian platforms and to AFMT_S16_LE
> > on little-endian platforms.  NE == native endian.
> 
> Ah, is that what it does. OK, I'll carefully suggest to the authors of ESD
> (preferably with a blunt trauma instrument) using AFMT_S16_NE. Thanks.

It should probably be mentioned that you're using a really old version of 
ESD, and that they've at least made it so that you'll get the right one 
for any BE machine.  NE is still the better answer though -- now their 
configure script figures out BE/LE, and it'll build wrong if you're 
crosscompiling.

-- 
        Peter

"Don't everyone thank me at once!"
		-- Solo

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