[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 0/5] util: Rework endian handling in python code

Jose Fonseca jfonseca at vmware.com
Wed Apr 23 11:28:59 PDT 2014


Richard, Michel,

Apologies for the long silence.  I flagged this thread as worth following, but I failed to noticed the RFC to me.

I glanced over it and the series looks good to me AFAICT.  I agree that it is a better to defer the endianess to C-preprocessing time.

Jose

----- Original Message -----
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> Richard Sandiford <rsandifo at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> > Ping (with fixed subject)
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> > Richard Sandiford <rsandifo at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> >> This is a refresh of:
> >>
> >>    https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2013-June/040594.html&k=oIvRg1%2BdGAgOoM1BIlLLqw%3D%3D%0A&r=NMr9uy2iTjWVixC0wOcYCWEIYhfo80qKwRgdodpoDzA%3D%0A&m=qNJxBmC8T0UJrxq1t6ovCuRj4qWejx24a49GkVAHnuk%3D%0A&s=791bcf25d17824bc574aec7183fe264a488fd5b311f6726973a81f52cf580a02
> >>
> >> At the moment the python code uses sys.byteorder to decide whether
> >> u_format_table.c should be for big or little endian.  With this series
> >> it instead generates both forms, using blocks like:
> >>
> >> #ifdef PIPE_ARCH_BIG_ENDIAN
> >> ...
> >> #else
> >> ...
> >> #endif
> >>
> >> in cases where endianness matters.
> >>
> >> Doing it this way is more cross-compiler-friendly.  It also means people
> >> working on LE systems can see what the differences would be for BE.
> >>
> >> Tested on x86_64 and z.  I don't have commit access so please apply if OK.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Richard
> >>
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