Re: [RFC PATCH 1/6] qemu/bswap: Add const_le64()

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2022 at 16:22, Richard Henderson
<richard.henderson@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 10/11/22 02:48, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > This is kind of a weird API, because:
> >   * it only exists for little-endian, not big-endian
> >   * we use it in exactly two files (linux-user/elfload.c and
> >     hw/input/virtio-input-hid.c)
> >
> > which leaves me wondering if there's a better way of doing
> > it that I'm missing. But maybe it's just that we never filled
> > out the missing bits of the API surface because we haven't
> > needed them yet. Richard ?
>
> It's piecemeal because, as you note, very few places require a version of 
> byte swapping
> that must be applicable to static data.  I certainly don't want to completely 
> fill this
> out and have most of it remain unused.

Makes sense. In that case, other than ordering the definitions
64-32-16,

Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

thanks
-- PMM