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Re: Proposal for merging scalar-storage-order branch into mainline
- From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>
- To: pinskia at gmail dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 18:20:27 +0200
- Subject: Re: Proposal for merging scalar-storage-order branch into mainline
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> Because some folks don't want to audit their code to where to add byteswaps.
> I am serious people have legacy big-endian code they want to run little
> endian. There is a reason this is around in the first place. Developers are
> lazy.
That's a little rough, but essentially correct in our experience.
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Eric Botcazou