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Re: Byte swapping support

From: Jürg Billeter <juerg dot billeter at codethink dot co dot uk>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
Cc: GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 11:51:38 +0200
Subject: Re: Byte swapping support
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On Tue, 2017-09-12 at 08:52 -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> Can you use __attribute__ ((scalar_storage_order)) in GCC 7?

To support existing large code bases, the goal is to reverse storage
order for all scalars, not just (selected) structs/unions. Also need to
support taking the address of a scalar field, for example. C++ support
will be required as well.

Jürg

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