[PATCH xserver 3/2] Rewrite the byte swapping macros.

[Keith Packard]

Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net> writes:

> Unaligned accesses trap on some platforms, and I don't think we're
> guaranteed that the caller has the pointer aligned (at least, the
> previous code seemed pretty clearly to be trying to work around that, as
> well).

If it's protocol, then everything is aligned as long as the start of the
request is aligned.

> I do like the unit test plan, though.

Always a good idea.

-- 
-keith
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