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Re: AC_C_BIGENDIAN answers "universal" on powerpc-aix
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Eric Blake |
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Re: AC_C_BIGENDIAN answers "universal" on powerpc-aix |
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Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:19:03 -0600 |
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According to Peter O'Gorman on 8/13/2008 12:13 PM:
| Hi,
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| "checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... universal" is not the
| correct answer on powerpc-ibm-aix. The question is not really correct
| either (yes/no question, answer is neither yes nor no), but that is
| beside the point.
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| As far as I know, it is only possible to built differently endian output
| on Mac OS X with Apple's gcc. Would a patch to limit the check for
| universal to when __APPLE_CC__ is defined be accepted?
The brokenness of AC_C_BIGENDIAN has been known for some time now, still
without a patch. At this point, any approach is better than none, so it
might be worth posting your ideas.
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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