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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Cc: aliguori@us.ibm.com, Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][v2] configure: change endianness test
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:49:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201203142149.56999.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F610CA6.8030903@weilnetz.de>

> 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.

If you're compiling for a host that obscure, then there's a good chance you'll 
be cross-compiling anyway.  I'd be amazed if there aren't other bits of qemu 
that require host-specific code.

Paul

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-14 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-14 20:37 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][v2] configure: change endianness test Stuart Yoder
2012-03-14 21:24 ` Stefan Weil
2012-03-14 21:37   ` Peter Maydell
2012-03-14 21:42     ` Stefan Weil
2012-03-14 21:49   ` Paul Brook [this message]

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