From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:33:24 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Spartan FPGA patch
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:43:32 +0200."
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In message <4731A4E4.20308@inaccessnetworks.com> you wrote:
>
> > So let me repeat my question: is there any special reason  why  "val"
> > has to be a "char" type? Why not making it an "int" ?
> 
> Because you will run into endianness problems. You want to treat an 
> "unsigned char" buffer as a bitstream, reading the MSB every time. How 
> are you going to do this portably (in both big and little endian 
> architectures) with an "int" type, which is at least 2 bytes wide?

Oops? I can't parse that. What's the difference between "signed char"
and "int" except the number of bits?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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