From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31237 invoked by alias); 19 Jan 2002 14:47:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 31198 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2002 14:47:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (128.2.145.6) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 19 Jan 2002 14:47:14 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16Rwm6-0000ON-00 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 09:47:18 -0500 Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 06:47:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [patch/rfc] Eliminate TARGET_BYTE_ORDER_SELECTABLE Message-ID: <20020119094718.A1404@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <3C490B0C.6090601@cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C490B0C.6090601@cygnus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-SW-Source: 2002-01/txt/msg00528.txt.bz2 On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 12:58:36AM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote: > Hello, > > All multi-arch targets (yep, including the i386) allow the byte order to > be selected at run time. This means that the macro > TARGET_BYTE_ORDER_SELECTABLE which was used by non-multi-arch targets is > obsolete. > > The attached patch eliminates that macro. I've tested it on a > multi-arch target and I don't think it breaks non-multi-arch targets. > > Anyway, I intend committing this in a few days. > Andrew Hmm, I don't know. Do we really want to do this? This allows, for instance, 'set endian big' on i386. That may someday make someone think that GDB supports such a beast, on the off chance one is ever made. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer