Re: [PATCH] NIPQUAD macro broken on big endian

Roderich Schupp (rsch@ExperTeam.de)
Thu, 8 Oct 1998 00:07:28 +0200

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> said:
> - it's not so much slowness as code expansion (NIPQUAD is only used
> by various printk's, so performance per se is secondary)

So why not teach the kernel's vsprintf a new format code and
get rid of this hack? (Wasn't such a format in the kernel at one time?)

Just my $0.02, Roderich

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