[PATCH] replace LIBGCC2_WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN with __BYTE_ORDER__

Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Tue Oct 19 20:23:00 GMT 2010


On 10/19/2010 11:07 AM, Paul Koning wrote:

> I'm indeed willing to keep maintaining it (though admittedly I
> haven't been all that active -- that may change a bit soon).  On the
> other hand, I'll admit that I don't know if there are all that many
> users.

I certainly don't mean to criticize; a key idea for FOSS is that anyone
can make the software do what they want, and I'm all for people porting
GCC to whatever platform is of interest to them!

I'm just skeptical that maintaining PDP11 support in GCC is worthwhile
if it has any non-trivial cost for users without a stake in PDP11.  This
is a situation where it seems like it's a hassle, and given that my
inclination would be just to remove PDP11 support from GCC.

-- 
Mark Mitchell
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