From: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 05:56:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/16] compat: add endinanness helpers
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1306270655120.10263@ds9.cixit.se>
In-Reply-To: <CAFFjANSNagvDgvrFNV1OLg=-4BPyQVjMDnfMPihdhVJR7o0TdQ@mail.gmail.com>

Vicent Martí:

> I'm aware of that, but Git needs to build with glibc 2.7+ (or was it 
> 2.6?), hence the need for this compat layer.

Right. But perhaps the compatibility layer could provide the 
functionality with the names available in the later glibc versions 
(and on *BSD)? That would make it easier to read the code that is 
using it.

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