Re: Lua in-kernel (lbuf library)

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2013, Lourival Vieira Neto wrote:
> > In order to indicate that endianness conversion is necessary I need to
> > know the future uses of the buffer.  Clairvoyance excepted, that is kinda
> > hard.
>
> It's a generic data structure that could be used to handle bit fields
> or nonaligned data.

Endianness should be a property of a field in a data structure, 
not a property of the entire data structure.  There might be a 
mixture of big- and little-endian fields of different sizes in the 
same data structure.  It seemed to me from a superficial reading 
that the proposed endianness flag in the Lua "buf" interface would 
not handle that.

--apb (Alan Barrett)