From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Wilson Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 01:21:41 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] big endian code of NUE gcc Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org ia64-linux is little-endian. The -mbig-endian option won't do anything useful on an ia64-linux system. You probably should have gotten a linker error message though. I think gcc needs to pass an option to the assembler so that it can set the big-endian bit in the elf header. Or else emit an assembler directive to do this. If you are emitting code for a different OS, and that OS has big-endian support, and gcc has support for that OS, then -mbig-endian should do something useful. I do not know of any big-endian IA-64 targets at this time though, so the big-endian support has never been tested. Jim