On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 10:07:18AM +0100, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote:
> On 22/05/18 22:21, Jeff Law wrote:
> > On 05/21/2018 03:46 PM, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >> This patch creates "be" and "le" selectors, which can be used by all
> >> architectures, similar to ilp32 and lp64.

> >> 2017-05-21  Segher Boessenkool  <seg...@kernel.crashing.org>
> >>
> >> gcc/testsuite/
> >>    * lib/target-supports.exp (check_effective_target_be): New.
> >>    (check_effective_target_le): New.
> > I think this is fine.  "be" "le" are used all over the place in gcc and
> > the kernel to denote big/little endian.
> 
> except when el and eb are used for perversity... :-)

It should have been -BE and -EL, because that is what it means.  That
also avoids the -l/-L problem -le and -LE would have ;-)

(Confusing?  Yes, little-endian is confusing).


Segher

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