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Re: Bytes order and words order
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- To: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
- Cc: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 21:09:20 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: Re: Bytes order and words order
On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Neil Booth wrote:
> Ah, OK. That's fine with me. That's the target version, yes? What
> would the host / build ones be?
Why are host and build versions wanted? GCC targeted to a given system
should produce exactly the same output irrespective of the host and build
systems; having any way for code to detect properties of the host and
build systems would seem to be a bad idea.
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk