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On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se> wrote:
> endian(3) claims that glibc 2.9+ define be64toh() and htobe64() which should
> do what you are looking for. The manual page does mention them being named
> differently across OSes, though, so you may need to be careful with that.

I'm aware of that, but Git needs to build with glibc 2.7+ (or was it
2.6?), hence the need for this compat layer.