Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:41:46 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Endianness Message-ID: <20100113024146.2786efa3@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <b025ceb71001121251m77ae380fs129699f7bd2a896e@mail.gmail.com> References: <b025ceb71001121251m77ae380fs129699f7bd2a896e@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:51:00 -0800 Rob Farmer <rfarmer@predatorlabs.net> wrote: > I'm trying to create a port of an application which only works on > little endian systems and I'm trying to figure out how to set > ONLY_FOR_ARCHS. Wikipedia says PowerPC, Sparc, and IA64 are bi-endian > and the OS chooses the mode. I'm not familiar with these platforms - > I'm sure it has been answered somewhere, but I can't find it - which > FreeBSD archs are little/big endian? Thanks. Perhaps your makefile could check endianess on the build machine and set IGNORE if it's bigendian, e.g. if the output of "file /bin/ls" doesn't contain LSB.
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