Bytes order and words order

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Neil Booth wrote:

> Ah, OK.  That's fine with me.  That's the target version, yes?  What
> would the host / build ones be?

Why are host and build versions wanted?  GCC targeted to a given system
should produce exactly the same output irrespective of the host and build
systems; having any way for code to detect properties of the host and
build systems would seem to be a bad idea.

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Joseph S. Myers
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