On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 08:09:33 -0800, Keith Packard wrote: > walter harms <wha...@bfs.de> writes: > > Assuming that __LITTLE_ENDIAN__ is of general interest, > > i would avoid defined(__ppc__) and friends otherwise we will need to define > > this for every achitecture. > > That would risk breaking little endian platforms that failed to define > this. Safest to limit the scope of the change the PPC platforms, where > __LITTLE_ENDIAN__ is a new option, and hence likely to be set correctly. > > I would sure like to be able to detect the difference between 'this > option is set to false' and 'this option isn't defined'; is there > something that PPC defines in both cases, and sets to TRUE in one case > and FALSE in the other?
I'm probably missing something (maybe this header cannot include a dix-config.h or equivalent), but why not use AC_C_BIGENDIAN? Thanks, Guillem _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
