From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10946 invoked by alias); 7 Oct 2011 20:50:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 10938 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Oct 2011 20:50:54 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00,TW_FZ,TW_VQ,TW_XG,TW_ZV X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from localhost (HELO gcc.gnu.org) (127.0.0.1) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:50:41 +0000 From: "fzvqedi at v dot mintemail.com" To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org Subject: [Bug bootstrap/50646] configure detects big endian on little endian system. Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:50:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: gcc X-Bugzilla-Component: bootstrap X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: normal X-Bugzilla-Who: fzvqedi at v dot mintemail.com X-Bugzilla-Status: WAITING X-Bugzilla-Priority: P3 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: X-Bugzilla-URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: contact gcc-bugs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-bugs-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2011-10/txt/msg00545.txt.bz2 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50646 --- Comment #2 from Roger Meyer 2011-10-07 20:50:23 UTC --- indeed, it would cause problems. i.e. compile some stuff with wrong endianness and later silently crash. in this specific case here the build stops later on on another error, caused by another case of configure failing. but i may have well overlooked _this_ specific issue, fixing the others that caused the build errors, and later being clueless why xgcc or something else segfaults. since autofocn is "built-in" into gcc, it's both a autofnoc / gcc bug, and needs to be fixed here and there.