On Sun, 26 Jul 1998 13:31:42 -0700 
 Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU> wrote:

 > It's not ``clearly wrong''.  We're still having the discussion because
 > the same issue was discussed elsewhere on April 2. (We even reached
 > closure on that in April, when discussing CPP predefines, and you
 > stipulated that ${MACHINE_ARCH} on mips systems should be "mips", as
 > far as I can see.)
 > 
 > There was explicit suggestion that CPP should be  defining
 > 
 > 	__NetBSD__
 > 	__${MACHINE_ARCH}__
 > 	__${ENDIANNESS}__	/* or __${ENDIANESS} */
 > 
 > cgd said that he didn't consider endian-ness issues when defining
 > ${MACHINE_ARCH}, didn't recall it coming up, and that leaving
 > ${MACHINE_ARCH} as "mips" on mips systems is a reasonable choice.

So the MIPS is a special case.  Treat it that way, geez.  On all but
MIPS, it's:

	-D__NetBSD__
	-D__${MACHINE_ARCH}__

...on MIPS:

	-D__NetBSD__
	-D__mips__
	-D__MIPSEB__ or -D__MIPSEL__ based on toolchain default or -EB or -EL.

...then document the special case, and how it conforms to existing conventions
used for that processor.

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