Re: CVS commit: basesrc

[Todd Vierling <tv%wasabisystems.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Simon Burge wrote:

: Add evbmips.
: XXX: This is hard-coded to little-endian here, but there's not reason for
:      some this.  The MALTA can be used with either-endianness.

build.sh needs *some* default; you can't build for both endiannesses at
once.  However, a builder can explicitly choose the endianness (and on some
platforms, the bitsize) by supplying both "-m" and "-a" to build.sh; that's
why "-a" is there.

Typically, whatever the vendor supplies its sample tools and so forth as a
default is usually a good default for the port.  Or whatever has more NetBSD
availability -- here, little-endian probably represents that.

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