U*_AT macros

[Christophe Massiot]

Hello,

I'd like to get rid of the U16_AT and U32_AT macros (which are 
wrappers to ntohs and ntohl). The reason I don't like that is that 
they suppose the source address is aligned, which is often not the 
case. The problem is every time some one uses U32_AT, it breaks the 
ports on SPARC and ARM, which can't read unaligned addresses (bus 
error !).

So we have two solutions :
* Make U*_AT macros alignment-safe, basically :
#define U16_AT(titi) ((titi[0] << 8) | titi[1])
This has no interest, compared to hand-coding the conversion.

* Remove the U*_AT macros, and replace them everywhere with explicit 
parsing and shifts.

What do you think ?

-- 
Christophe Massiot.

-- 
This is the vlc-devel mailing-list, see http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
To unsubscribe, please read http://www.videolan.org/lists.html
If you are in trouble, please contact <postmaster at videolan.org>