Re: [PATCH] testsuite: endianness in gnu_vector.exp

[jose.marchesi@oracle.com (Jose E. Marchesi)]

    Jose> Small patch making gnu_vector.exp to work properly in big-endian
    Jose> machines.
    
    The patch looks reasonable enough, but is this how casting to vector
    types works?  That is, is the gdb result here consistent with what gcc
    does?  This isn't clear from the existing test.
    
Well, this is all I can find on the gcc manual on casting vectors:

"It is possible to cast from one vector type to another, provided they
 are of the same size (in fact, you can also cast vectors to and from
 other datatypes of the same size)."

No explicit mention to the endianness issue.  But then the behavior of
gcc indicates that it stores the elements of the vectors in memory
ordering: the following program generates different results in x86_64 (2
0) and SPARC/BE (0 2).

typedef int __attribute__((vector_size(8))) vector_t;

void
main()
{
  long i = 2;
  vector_t v = (vector_t) i;
  printf ("%d %d\n", v[0], v[1]);
}

So it looks like the test is now consistent with what gcc does...