On Sunday 06 May 2012 01:55:04 Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > Similar to a recent SH libc change, I've applied this patch to avoid MIPS
> > string .S functions including <endian.h> and getting errors from C source
> > code from that header.
> 
>  Hmm, <endian.h> is a user header and I could imagine software to rely on
> it even in handcoded assembly.  And it used to work just fine.  Are you
> sure the problematic stuff in <endian.h> or pulled by it shouldn't be
> wrapped into:
> 
> #ifndef __ASSEMBLER__
> 
> or suchlike instead?

a patch was posted to do that, but no one responded :/

http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-04/msg01141.html
-mike