On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Todd Vierling wrote:

: Only one primary object format is in use at any time (opposite-endian
: binaries need to run under emulation).  The correct MACHINE and MACHINE_ARCH
: definitions could be provided with "#ifdef" supplied by the config file.  
: 
: Userland code should not rely on <sys/param.h> for the proper values;
: uname() and sysctl() exist for that.
: 
: : 	#if 1
: : 	#define _BYTE_ORDER _BIG_ENDIAN
: : 	#else
: : 	#define _BYTE_ORDER _LITTLE_ENDIAN
: : 	#endif
: 
: This could use same #ifdef as MACHINE and MACHINE_ARCH.

Note that mips does have some gcc-provided #defines that tell headers which
endian is in use (from -EB and -EL flags).  These can be used to provide the
proper #ifdef macro, as well.

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