From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>, Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
Cc: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: how to know host endianness in binutils
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2024 11:29:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0ffc918c-0866-41a1-b3f5-6b5183d75c74@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d4fe56ce-d6b8-4003-a2ff-f899562440fa@suse.com>
Hi Jan,
> looking around, I can't seem to be able to find any standardized way of
> knowing host endianness in binutils (in gas/ in particular).
There is a CYG_AC_C_ENDIAN function in config/acinclude.m4 that defines
LITTLE_ENDIAN_HOST for little endian hosts, but as far as I can tell this
function is never invoked.
> I can see config/tc-bpf.c checking WORDS_BIGENDIAN, but I couldn't
> convince myself (from looking at the generated config.h) that one can
> really rely on that.
Other code seems to rely upon this define too. For example gdb/tracectf.c.
Also as H.J. mentioned it does appear that the code in the script configure
does do the right thing. I would suggest that you can safely use it.
Cheers
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-02 11:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-21 14:30 Jan Beulich
2023-12-21 15:11 ` H.J. Lu
2024-01-02 11:29 ` Nick Clifton [this message]
2024-01-09 16:19 ` Michael Matz
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