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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][v2] configure: change endianness test
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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Am 14.03.2012 22:37, schrieb Peter Maydell:
> On 14 March 2012 21:24, Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de> wrote:
>> Contrary to Paul's argument QEMU does not only support a fixed
>> set of known host architectures, but also unknown hosts (via TCI).
>> For those, there remains a small chance that they are big endian
>> and that they get the wrong endianness now. TCI is still experimental,
>> so I don't care too much about this small deficit.
>
> (speaking with absolutely no idea of the innards of TCI :-))
> I think the correct fix for this is that TCI should be portable
> code which doesn't care about the host endianness.
>
> -- PMM

TCI does not care, but the rest of QEMU cares.
That's why configure determines the endianness.

Stefan