Subject: Re: endianness of *.db on cross builds
To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 05/30/2002 09:16:17
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 05:51:27PM +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:

 > 	do people think it necessary?  or should we modify lib/libc/db
 > 	to be bi-endian? (or is it bi-endian already?)

I think the correct byte order should be used for the target.

Can I suggest putting the Makefile fragment into a bsd.endian.mk, or
something like that, so that the code doesn't have to be duplicated
all over the place (at least the code that extracts the "1234" or "4321")?

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>