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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:39:35 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
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Subject: Re: Detecting endianness in scripts/recordmcount.pl?
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> > > 
> > > The CONFIG_64BIT test could likewise be adopted for testing endianness, but
> > > not all architectures have config options for endian selections.
> > But we could add this - no?
> > Much better than executing objdump one thousand times.
> 
> Adding a parameter would be better.

Which moves the problem to the caller which is OK.
And then we are back to the same discussion and again we should
introduce a CONFIG_ symbol for it.

	Sam