From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51923) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7w5S-0004Qd-Fe for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:50:27 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7w58-0007fI-Dy for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:50:26 -0400 Received: from relay1.mentorg.com ([192.94.38.131]:50722) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7w58-0007bj-8U for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:50:06 -0400 From: Paul Brook Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:49:56 +0000 References: <1331757449-20873-1-git-send-email-stuart.yoder@freescale.com> <4F610CA6.8030903@weilnetz.de> In-Reply-To: <4F610CA6.8030903@weilnetz.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201203142149.56999.paul@codesourcery.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][v2] configure: change endianness test List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Weil Cc: aliguori@us.ibm.com, Stuart Yoder , qemu-devel@nongnu.org > 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