Constant byteorder macros.

[Alan Cox]

> Again, I can imagine people trying to compile Linux on other architectures
> with, say, the DEC/OSF1 Alpha compiler, or some custom CPU-specific compiler
> for their architecture du-jour, or with lcc (because they're FSF-phobic), or
> with some generic C analysis tool (to prove things about the code;
> to benchmark their research optimizer).

And they can fix it. Playing "guess the future needs" like that is pointless.
Your byteorder stuff just makes bcc throw up anyway so it wouldnt have helped
the 8086 guys to have avoided gnuisms
 
Alan


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