On 24/05/18 18:28, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > 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).
I beg to differ. Big endian is the confusing one... :-) R. > > > Segher >
