Help with cross-endian bitfields?

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Mon, 8 May 2000, D.J. Barrow wrote:
> struct blah
> {
>    unsigned a : 3;
>    unsigned b : 3;
>    unsigned c : 2;
> } __attribute__(packed);
>
> I personally would be expecting to use ((*((u8
> *)&blah[0]))&0x0e0)>>5 to get the info from blah.a on
> both little & big endian machines.

Which no longer works if a is longer than 8 bits and/or spans multiple bytes.
For PCI accesses, you can work around this by using {read,write}l(), which do
byte swapping on big-endian platforms as well.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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