On 02/24/14 08:19 AM, Guillem Jover wrote:
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?
Because tradition! And because Imake didn't work that way!
But mostly because no one has had the patience to change it since,
and to make a servermd.h.in that configure can generate servermd.h
from to install for use by driver builds that may not have the exact
same macros set by AC_C_BIGENDIAN in their builds.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com
Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
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