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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.


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