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On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 04:45:51PM +0530, Madhavan Srinivasan wrote:
> >  - should you not have fixed this in the tool only? This patch
> >    effectively breaks ABI on big-endian architectures.
> 
> IIUC, we are the first BE user for this feature
> (Kindly correct me if I am wrong), so technically we
> are not breaking ABI here :) .  But let me also look  at
> the dynamic conversion part.

Huh? PPC hasn't yet implemented this? Then why are you fixing it?