Re: [PATCH] tile: default to little-endian in bits/endian.h

[Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>]

Ping to David Miller for the 2.17 backport; the change is on master, 2.15, and 2.16 at this point.

On 6/12/2013 4:48 PM, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> 2013-06-12  Chris Metcalf  <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
>
> 	* sysdeps/tile/bits/endian.h (__BYTE_ORDER): Default to little.
>
> This turns out to be helpful when doing a from-scratch cross-compile of
> gcc and glibc, since you can then do "make install-headers" in glibc
> even before you have a functioning tile gcc.
>
> This was pointed out by Mike Frysinger (cc'ed).
>
> David, Carlos, I'd like to also backport this to glibc 2.17 and 2.16,
> to make cross-building easier there.  It applies to 2.15 as well, but
> I'm not sure how far back it makes sense to go with this kind of thing.
>
> diff --git a/ports/sysdeps/tile/bits/endian.h b/ports/sysdeps/tile/bits/endian.h
> index 43d94bb..835042a 100644
> --- a/ports/sysdeps/tile/bits/endian.h
> +++ b/ports/sysdeps/tile/bits/endian.h
> @@ -6,8 +6,6 @@
>  
>  #if defined __BIG_ENDIAN__
>  # define __BYTE_ORDER __BIG_ENDIAN
> -#elif defined __LITTLE_ENDIAN__
> -# define __BYTE_ORDER __LITTLE_ENDIAN
>  #else
> -# error "Endianness not declared!!"
> +# define __BYTE_ORDER __LITTLE_ENDIAN
>  #endif

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