Bytes order and words order

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

"Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> writes:

| On 23 Aug 2002, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| 
| >     -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.
| 
| I suspect those names may clash with some systems' headers; glibc's 
| <endian.h> has
| 
| #define __LITTLE_ENDIAN 1234
| #define __BIG_ENDIAN    4321
| 
| and some other system may well have such definitions with trailing __.

You're right.  I just posted a message asking what y'all think about

    __GCC_LITTLE_ENDIAN__

?

-- Gaby