From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
To: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] binutils/windmc: Parse input correctly on big endian hosts
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 11:55:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240124115518.GS7636@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240124112014.2675193-1-rjones@redhat.com>
On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 11:20:05AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> +/* Best effort attempt to find out if we're running on a big endian
> + * system (only old ppc64 and s390x these days). Assume little endian
> + * if the macros are not defined. On big endian, unichar will be a
> + * big endian short.
> + */
> +#if defined(__BYTE_ORDER__) && \
> + defined(__ORDER_BIG_ENDIAN__) && \
> + __BYTE_ORDER__ == __ORDER_BIG_ENDIAN__
> +#define IS_LITTLE_ENDIAN 0
> +#else
> +#define IS_LITTLE_ENDIAN 1
> +#endif
I just found a thread about how to find host endianness:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2024-January/131506.html
so I'll rework this patch, except v2 soon.
Rich.
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