https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88745
--- Comment #8 from Iain Sandoe <iains at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Ian Lance Taylor from comment #7) > We are using yet another object file reader because libbacktrace is designed > to run correctly when invoked by a signal handler, so it cannot use ordinary > memory allocation. thanks, that clarifies (although the necessary logic and some of the code are going to be similar, so looking at the simple-object one can also help in addition to examining the loader.h). > libbacktrace is only used when host == target. It's built as a target > library so that it can be linked into programs that are built for and run on > the target. For those programs, host == target == (target of overall build). So at configure time (for a cross-compiler, which I build often for Darwin) does the awk script need to pick up the correct cross-endian value? (i.e even tho there is no need to swap things in the running code, the configuration might need to).
