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- From: dan@gordian.com (Dan Lambright)
- Subject: defining endianness on mips processor
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.083045.22672@gordian.com>
- Organization: Gordian; Costa Mesa, CA
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 08:30:45 GMT
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- On the c compiler provided with the RISC os for their mips
- processor, there is an option to toggle between big and
- little endian. cc (-EL/EB) On our workstations we compile
- in big endian, and for our engineering platform we compile
- in little endian.
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- gcc does not apear to have such an option of its command line.
- There are #defines that you can use, it seems, to say which
- type of endianness you want, when you build gcc.
-
- I realy don't want to have two gcc executables (one for big and
- one for little endian.) I'd like a command line argument
- to be able to switch between the two. Is that going to exist
- in a future gcc release, or is it posible to hack on the code
- to produce big/little endian as definable by the user?
-
- Dan Lambright
- dan@gordian.com
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