[MYNEWT-89] Investigate most efficient way to convert from host to little endian order

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: v0_8_0_beta1
• Fix Version/s: WISHLIST
• Component/s: Misc, Nimble
• Security Level: Public (Viewable by anyone)
• Assignee: Will Sanfilippo
• Reporter: Will Sanfilippo
• Created: 10/Feb/16 18:56
• Updated: 31/Mar/17 03:30
• Resolved: 31/Mar/17 03:30

Description

The BLE specification is little endian "over the air". The current code uses some functions to convert from host order to little endian order. These functions may not be the most efficient for the MCU. We should investigate the best way to do this for cortex-M processors (and other MCUs).