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In D128612#3620911 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D128612#3620911>, @MaskRay wrote:

> In D128612#3618167 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D128612#3618167>, @gbenyei wrote:
>
>> In D128612#3617955 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D128612#3617955>, @MaskRay 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> lld/ELF change should be dropped from this change. Don't use 
>>> `config->endianness`.
>>> I feel sad that for little-endian users who don't use big-endian, every 
>>> write now is slightly slower due to a check ;-)
>>
>> Hi, I'm not sure I get it. How will we have a fully functional toolchain, if 
>> I don't implement the lld/ELF part?
>> In LLVM, unlike in GCC, target related decisions happen in runtime. I think 
>> it's a high level design decision. While I can understand the pain of LE 
>> developers getting a slightly slower linker due to endianness checking, I 
>> sure will feel the pain of a BE developer not having a linker...
>>
>> Please explain why I shouldn't use `config->endianness`?
>
> See PPC64.cpp. See D96188 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D96188> how I added 
> aarch64_be support. A set of representative tests should be picked with be 
> tests.
> If llvm-project consensus is that we will add big-endian support, I can 
> handle lld/ELF part. I am mostly concerned with this scenarios that some 
> RISC-V folks click LGTM, and the change lands with no test in some areas, or 
> the code somewhat breaks local convention.
>
> Many of the changes in this patch probably should be split. llvm-objcopy and 
> JIT changes definitely needs appropriate tests and the suitable domain 
> reviewers.

Thanks, it makes more sense now. I'll split the LLD changes, and remove the JIT 
related stuff.



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Comment at: clang/lib/Basic/Targets/RISCV.h:144
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+    StringRef LayoutEndianness = Triple.isLittleEndian() ? "e" : "E";
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MaskRay wrote:
> You may use a `char` and possibly fold this into the expression below.
Concatenating a conditional char and a string literal might be tricky, I'm not 
sure there is a cleaner solution.


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