Constant byteorder macros.

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <20000122012546.B4390 en ZhengHe.augustin.thierry>
By author:    Francois-Rene Rideau <fare en tunes.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Dear Alan, dear linux kernel hackers,
> 
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 11:16:38PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> >> * people may want to extract parts of the kernel to reuse them in
> >>  other environments, with other compilers
> >
> > Its very hard to do so. The only people who did it were the Linux 8086 folks.
> 
> Sure. But why make their life gratuitously harder?
> 

Because otherwise you're making everyone *elses* life gratuitously
harder.  (You realize, of course, that you're replying to Alan, who
did a bunch of the ELKS work?)

    -hpa
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