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Explain why no native accessors for s8' and u8' exist

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* doc/ref/api-data.texi: Instead of saying it is obvious, explain why
  no native endianness accessors exist for the `s8' and `u8' variants.
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Diogo F. S. Ramos 2017-02-26 19:19:00 -03:00 • committed by Andy Wingo
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@ -6942,8 +6942,9 @@ Store @var{value} as an @var{n}-bit (signed) integer (where @var{n} is
@end deffn
Finally, a variant specialized for the host's endianness is available
for each of these functions (with the exception of the @code{u8}
accessors, for obvious reasons):
for each of these functions (with the exception of the @code{u8} and
@code{s8} accessors, as endianness is about byte order and there is only
1 byte):
@deffn {Scheme Procedure} bytevector-u16-native-ref bv index
@deffnx {Scheme Procedure} bytevector-s16-native-ref bv index