Big-endian Gcc on Intel IA32

Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
Mon Dec 17 18:12:00 GMT 2001


On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 05:10:01PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Or is it that the information just isn't carried around in a convenient
> format? gcc does seem to warn about _some_ casts ("discards qualifiers
> from pointer target type", "makes integer from pointer without cast").
> Does it lose the information early for explicit casts or something?

Err, no...  Actually, I don't know what I was thinking.  Of course
we can statically notice attribute differences.


r~



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