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Re: Byte swapping support

From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>
To: Jim Wilson <jim dot wilson at linaro dot org>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Jürg Billeter <juerg dot billeter at codethink dot co dot uk>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 08:22:14 +0200
Subject: Re: Byte swapping support
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> And there are lots of other problems, I don't have time to document them
> all, or even remember them all.  Personally, I think you are better off
> trying to fix the application to make it more portable.  Fixing the
> compiler is not a magic solution to the problem that is any easier than
> fixing the application.

Note that WRS' Diab compiler has got something equivalent to what GCC has got 
now, i.e. a way to tag a particular component in a structure as BE or LE.

-- 
Eric Botcazou

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