On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 5:29 PM, James Le Cuirot <ch...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:52:26 -0400 > Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 6:44 PM, James Le Cuirot <ch...@gentoo.org> > wrote: > > > I am therefore proposing a new global big-endian flag. This could be > > > masked by default and unmasked + forced in the relevant profiles under > > > arch. I will apply this according to the mapping defined in tc-endian > of > > > toolchain-funcs.eclass. > > I've just been putting the patch together. I made it slightly simpler > by masking *and* forcing it by default so that it only needs to be > unmasked were necessary. > > > A possible alternative would be to create a new USE_EXPAND variable > > for this. That would allow for easier expansion in case we ever > > support something other than big/little endian machines. > > That way madness lies? Wikipedia talks about middle-endian as being the > catch all for other random orderings that have appeared over the years > but I don't think any of them were used on a system-wide basis. I can't > imagine Linux ever supporting such a thing. Unless you're talking about > dealing with soft vs hard float here too? So I can't ever expect support for littler-endian, giant-endian, shrinking-endian, and chaos-endian?
