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Re: Bytes order and words order
Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:-
> I'm afraid it is not really about consistency with something else.
> The supporting code needs to distinguish about
> (1) the host floating-point types
> (2) the target floating-point types
>
> someone else reminded (3) build -- for cross-x-cross.
>
> I would say, that consistency would require the prefix TARGET.
> However, I'm not sanguine about it as far as every thing is perfectly
> clear.
OK, it's just that the dozens of other target builtin macros aren't
prefixed.
> I realized that some exisint software were using __LITTLE_ENDIAN, so I
> don't know whether I should add a prefix (no, I'm not joking) GCC.
> Probably, yes. Any other suggestion?
I don't understand your meaning here.
Neil.