Bytes order and words order

[Michael S. Zick]

On Friday 23 August 2002 06:01 am, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   Supports for floating-point data types in the C++ runtime system
> require me to know the bytes and words orders used by the target.  I
> would like to have means for the front-end or driver to pass those
> information down to the library.  I think a minimal path would be for
> CPP to define some macros like
>
>     -D__TARGET_BYTES_ORDER__=__BIG_ENDIAN__ (or __LITTLE_ENDIAN__)
>     -D__TARGET_WORDS_ORDER__=__BIG_ENDIAN__ (or __LITTLE_ENDIAN__)
>
> with, for example, __LITTLE_ENDIAN__ and __BIG_ENDIAN__ predefined to 0
> and 1 respectivelly.  The same set of macros would be needed for the
> host in case of cross-compiling.
>
Also the same set of macros for the build target, please.
Mike