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Re: RFC: Stop using accross.m4
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at airs dot com>
- To: Kelley Cook <kcook at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Cc: GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, GCJ-patches <java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>, Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Date: 03 May 2005 20:34:52 -0400
- Subject: Re: RFC: Stop using accross.m4
- References: <4277E659.5020804@gcc.gnu.org>
Kelley Cook <kcook@gcc.gnu.org> writes:
> BYTEORDER is not used within all of GCC. HOST_WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN is
> only used in mips-tfile.c and that usage predates cvs. As it is a
> target file, it should be using WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN. Regardless the
> definition of the two macros are always the same .. except in one
> instance.
No, mips-tfile.c is a host file. It is an assembler postprocessor
which is run on the host. See ASM_FINAL_SPEC in config/alpha/osf.h.
So it should use HOST_WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN insofar as that is meaningful.
Of course, it doesn't really matter, because I'm pretty sure that
mips-tfile.c will only work on a native platform. In fact I'm pretty
sure it will only compile on a native platform. Fortunately that is
the only place where it is useful, since mips-tfile is only needed
with the native OSF assembler. gas implements all of its
functionality internally.
It also doesn't really matter because mips-tfile is now only used for
the Alpha, despite the name. And the Alpha is always little-endian.
I'll note further that mips-tfile is only used on alpha*-dec-osf[45]*,
and we can get rid of it once we can drop support for that target.
Ian