Proposal for merging scalar-storage-order branch into mainline

Eric Botcazou ebotcazou@adacore.com
Fri Jun 26 08:06:00 GMT 2015


> Well - they need a full audit anyway to slap those endian attributes on the
> appropriate structures.  We are not, after all, introducing a -fbig-endian
> switch.

Sort of though, the Ada compiler has a pragma to tag all record types with an 
SSO attribute (although I personally don't like it much).  It would be very 
easy to add the same in C/C++, modelled on #pragma pack, if this is deemed 
more convenient.

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Eric Botcazou



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